Airbnb · 3 days ago
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - AI Safety and Guardrail
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$244K/yr - $305K/yr
7+ years expAirbnb is a leading hospitality company that connects hosts and guests worldwide. The Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer will be a key member of the CSP Machine Learning team, responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of AI-powered systems while collaborating across various teams to implement effective guardrails and risk management strategies.
HospitalityMarketplaceMobile AppsPropTechTravelTravel Accommodations
Responsibilities
Collaborate with cross functional teams to identify issues, evaluate risks, design monitoring systems, tailor safeguard measures and deploy efficient solutions to ensure safe, robust and responsible use of AI adoption in CS products
Design and implement appropriate guardrails to mitigate risks like hallucinations, privacy breaches, prompt injections, harmful responses, or bias
Set up continuous risk monitoring pipelines and alerting to enable human-in-the-loop feedback and mitigation
Collaborate with trust, security, legal and operation teams to enable risk management
Collaborate with evaluation and data platform to design and build out data flywheel for fixing model failure modes and guardrail improvement
Partner with product, design, trust & safety, and legal teams to ensure AI-driven features meet global privacy and compliance standards
Own documentation, guardrail white papers, and onboarding materials to support knowledge sharing and auditability
Partner with ML infrastructure to scale safety features across Airbnb products
Qualification
Required
PhD/Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
7/10+ years of work experience in developing and deploying machine learning models in production
Strong understanding of machine learning principles and algorithms
Hands-on programming experience in python and in-depth knowledge of machine learning frameworks
2+ years of experience with one or more of the following broader areas: Content Safety/Integrity, ML Fairness and Bias, Responsible AI, AI Model Security, or related areas
Preferred
Experience with AI technologies in Customer Support Products
LLM alignment techniques (SFT, RLHF, DPO, etc)
LLM evaluation
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits
Company
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
VERSO CapitalJP Morgan ChaseFirstMark
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B
Leadership Team
Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
Recent News
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