Senior Research Engineer

Welcome sahibinden.com world!

• We work for ‘Wow!’ moments

• We stay curious and explore, we love innovation

• We look into the same topics from different perspectives

• We celebrate and feel proud of our success together

S- technology;

sahibinden.com has been helping people meet their dreams for the last 24 years.

With more than 55 million users and approximately with its 1000 employees, sahibinden.com is among the top five companies globally in classifieds sector.

Approved in 2017 as an R&D center in Turkey, sahibinden.com has been the pioneer of a variety of new services and provide continuous and reliable service over the web and mobile networks. Through our dynamic and agile teams, we continue to be a driving force in the digital marketplace by developing scalable and high-performance platforms that serve millions of users daily.

At sahibinden.com, we adopt a culture of innovation and continuous improvement at work to empower our employees. This approach, which fosters creative thinking and professional development, consistently earns us the title of one of The Best Workplaces in Europe, as voted by our employees.

Join us and be a part of our journey to redefine the future of e-commerce.

Is that you? Great!

Qualification:

• Residing in Istanbul.
• Holds an MSc or PhD degree or currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering or other relevant field,

• Completed a research-based MSc or PhD thesis in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision,

• Experience with version control systems and object-oriented programming,
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms,
• Advocate for the best practices in software engineering,

• Smart, analytical and creative problem solver.

Bonus Points For

• Deep understanding of at least one of the following research areas: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Large Language Models, Multimodal Learning, Recommendation Systems, or Anomaly Detection,

• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and/or Vision-Language Models (VLMs), including training, evaluation, or efficient inference,

• Experience with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow,

• Experience with Cloud Service Providers like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, etc.,

• Experience with automating AI model training, evaluation, and deployment processes,

• Knowledge of GPU hardware and CUDA,

• Experience with containerization and serving AI models as scalable services,

If the requirements are met, then your job description is below;

Your primary responsibility at sahibinden.com will be to research and develop novel projects.

In this context, we expect you to:

• Conduct research
• Develop prototypes
• Present your results to stakeholders
• Work with other teams to build real-world systems
• Foster academic collaborations with universities

• Publish your results by means of conference proceedings, journal articles, patents

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work remotely for up to two weeks per year

• Weekly study leave for employees pursuing a master's or PhD degree (one day per week)

• Birthday Day Off

• One week of accommodation at Richmond Efes and Pamukkale Hotels (for employees who have completed 3 years at sahibinden.com)

• Mental Health & Wellbeing Support

• Gym and Dietician service

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We believe in the importance of equal treatment in our recruitment process. Inline with our diversity, equality and inclusion policy, we evaluate each application process in a transparent and fair manner and we focus on the skills of each applicant regardless of religion, race or gender.

AI is used as a supportive tool in our recruitment processes; all final evaluations and hiring decisions are made by human professionals.”