Applied Social Scientist Jobs in California

Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university Bachelor's degree program.

Majoring in Computer Science, Statistics or a related STEM discipline.

Graduation date falls between December 2024 and June 2026.

Ability to work year-round: part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer.

Living within commutable distance to San Diego, CA and able to work in-person on a regular bases.

Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.

Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees

Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Experience using deep-learning frameworks, e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc

Experience in deploying perception algorithms and models into real-world environments

Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

A leader. You have years of experience mentoring junior researchers and developing a concept to a product.

Directly see the results of your applied research improving and powering the experience of eBay’s core search platform across the globe.

Results oriented. Research is great but at the end of the day you want to see your creation live and breathe.

Conceptualize, code, deploy, and iterate on designs from prototypes all the way through to production systems.

Analyze petabytes of real-world behavioral data to understand patterns and trends.

Transform data insights into actionable reports, targeting algorithms, and model features.

Work with customers to understand testing requirements and how to achieve them.

Highly skilled at experimental lab work.

Experience with pulsed power systems, high voltage systems, or other related fields

Knowledge of plasma physics concepts.

Work with a team to lead tests on large pulsed power machines and radiation sources.

Mentor more junior scientists and engineers

Work with customers to understand testing requirements and how to achieve them.

Ensure that customer requirements for products or services are met.

May have budget responsibility at the task level and will work closely with program/project managers.

Hands-on experience with experimental lab work.

Experience with pulsed power systems, high voltage systems, electromechanical systems, or related fields

Work with a team to conduct, and sometimes lead, tests on large pulsed power machines and radiation sources.

Good programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks.

Proven experience in designing and implementing deep learning algorithms.

PhD or Master's degree specialized in Deep Learning or equivalent experience.

We do not require domain-specific knowledge in computer vision or speech-processing

SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model.

ObamaNet: Photo-realistic lip-sync from text.