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# Director - AI Platform Engineering

- **Company:** eBay
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $240,800.0 - $321,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Metadata, Azure Machine Learning, Software Deployment, AI Infrastructure, Pytorch, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, AI Platforms, Machine Learning Operations, TensorRT, Hardware Infrastructure
- **Published:** June 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=134c5449d298b829

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Technical architecture?, * 10+ years overall experience with 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and/or leading multiple engineering teams.

 * Strong understanding of AI/ML platform architecture, including training, experimentation, model management, deployment, inference, observability, and developer workflows.
 * Familiarity with LLM inference, RAG systems, model serving runtimes, latency and efficiency optimization, evaluation, safety, and monitoring.
 * Ability to translate ambiguous business and research needs into clear platform strategy, technical roadmaps, operating models, and measurable execution plans.
 * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical, product, and executive collaborators., * Experience supporting both training and inference workloads across on-premise and cloud-based GPU environments.
 * Experience with technologies like Ray/KubeRay, vLLM, PyTorch, TensorRT, SGLang, MLflow, JupyterHub or equivalent technologies is a plus.

## Description

Join eBay as we develop a next-generation AI platform for intelligent marketplace experiences! We are seeking a Director of AI Platform Engineering to lead the infrastructure, services, and developer experiences that enable large-scale AI development and production deployment. This is an outstanding opportunity to build an ambitious AI platform that powers our global e-commerce engine.

You will drive the strategy for core capabilities spanning LLM inference, GPU infrastructure, MLOps, and agentic platforms. This role requires a proven technical leader who can scale engineering teams and collaborate with Research, Product, and Infrastructure partners., * Lead teams building production-grade LLM inference and serving platforms, including capacity planning, runtime optimization, benchmarking, release engineering, reliability, and cost efficiency.

 * Build and scale an agentic AI platform that enables teams to develop, deploy, monitor, and govern AI agents, multi-agent workflows, tool-calling systems, retrieval-augmented generation patterns, orchestration frameworks, and human-in-the-loop experiences.
 * Lead development of MLOps and AI control plane services, including model management, experiment tracking, metadata, deployment workflows, approval gates, APIs, SDKs, and self-service developer experiences.
 * Drive platform reliability and operational excellence through SLOs, observability, incident response, postmortems, production readiness reviews, automation, and capacity planning.
 * Hire, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary engineering organization across AI infrastructure, platform services, MLOps, agentic systems, developer experience, and production operations.


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