Airbnb · 3 days ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Listing Integrity
Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for their Listing Integrity team. The role focuses on developing innovative machine learning models to detect and prevent fraudulent listings, ensuring a safe and reliable experience for users.
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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
Working together with a wide variety of business functions to stop fraud attacks in real time
Collaborate with Data Scientists and other Machine Learning Engineers across trust to come up with the best modeling strategy and approach to defending against fake listings
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 fraud detection and mitigation
Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases
Qualification
Required
5+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields
Passion for building user-facing products or large backend systems
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) 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), Kafka (or equivalent), data warehouse (eg. Hive)
Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning models
Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models)
Preferred
Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus
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.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
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2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B
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