Airbnb · 2 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Listings and Host Tools Data and AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$204K/yr - $255K/yr
8+ years expAirbnb is a global community of hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their User Listing Marketplace Intelligence Machine Learning team. This role focuses on leveraging machine learning to enhance the host and guest experience by developing and improving ML models and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases
Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact
Prototype machine learning use cases for use in the product, and work with stakeholders to iterate on requirements
Develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases
Design and build services, API to enable serving ML model driven data to product use cases
Qualification
Required
8+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields
Must have experience in both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills
Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices (eg. training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection), algorithms (eg. gradient boosted trees, neural networks/deep learning, optimization, state-of-art NLP and CV algorithms) and domains (eg. natural language processing, computer vision, personalization and recommendation, anomaly detection)
Experience with 3 or more of these technologies: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow (or equivalent), data warehouse (eg. Hive)
Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning models, as well as integrating to product use cases
Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models)
Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment
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
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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
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