Expedia Group · 1 day ago
Senior Machine Learning Scientist- Search, Recommendations, & AI Engineering
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$173K/yr - $242K/yr
6+ years expExpedia Group is a leading company in the travel industry, focused on creating innovative technology solutions for global travel. The Senior Machine Learning Scientist will lead Generative & Agentic AI projects, enhancing search and recommendation systems while collaborating with product managers, engineers, and scientists to achieve business goals.
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Responsibilities
Enhance our recommendations across both agentic & traditional search placements
Design and implement agentic AI systems and define best practices for the team
Design agentic systems with capabilities including long-term memory, tool integration, multi-agent collaboration
Lead end-to-end agent development lifecycles, including prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
Utilize MCP for enterprise data/tool connectivity
Manage stakeholders with frequent communication and expectation management, meeting deadlines and minimizing surprises
Build relationships with other AI leads across the company to share knowledge & find collaboration opportunities
Stay abreast of developments in machine learning & AI via publications and conferences
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in a quantitative field
6+ years of industry experience as an AI Engineer or similar role
2+ years experience as a technical lead of Agentic AI projects
Expertise with Python & AI libraries/frameworks such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace
Proven ability to build, deploy, and maintain AI projects in production environments
Strong experience with LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines
Preferred
Experience with ranking & recommendation systems
Publications in top-tier ML conferences or journals
Experience building or integrating MCP servers for tool exposure
Familiarity with multi-agent/hierarchical agent systems
Benefits
Medical/dental/vision
Paid time off
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness & travel reimbursement
Travel discounts
International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership
Company
Expedia Group
At Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE), we believe travel is a force for good – it opens minds, builds connections, and bridges divides.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$4.25BKey Investors
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2025-02-21Post Ipo Debt· $985M
2020-04-23Post Ipo Equity· $1.2B
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Leadership Team
Ariane Gorin
Chief Executive Officer
Ramana Thumu
Chief Technology Officer
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