Airbnb · 4 hours ago
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$244K/yr - $305K/yr
12+ years expAirbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer for their Trust team. This role involves defining and executing the long-term ML technical vision and strategy for Trust, mentoring other engineers, and driving large-scale ML initiatives to enhance safety and trust across the platform.
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Responsibilities
Define and execute on the long-term ML technical vision and strategy for the Trust organization, identifying key investments, architecting scalable solutions, and championing best practices that advance the state-of-the-art in production ML systems
Serve as a technical leader and mentor to other ML and software engineers across the organization, providing guidance on complex architectural and modeling challenges, and raising the overall technical bar
Drive and deliver large-scale, multi-quarter ML initiatives that span multiple teams, influencing roadmaps and ensuring alignment between platform and product
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
Work closely with other trust defense and platform teams to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks
Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases
Examples include: Anomaly detection models, ML models for continuous risk evaluation, Multimodality and Agentic AI
Qualification
Required
12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning
2-3+ years working with LLMs and novel GenAI technologies. Proficiency and proven experience on Agentic AI (frameworks, orchestration, architecture and productionization)
A Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in CS/ML or related field
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. genAI, Agentic AI, natural language processing, computer vision, personalization and recommendation, anomaly detection)
Experience with these technologies: AgenticAI, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes
Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning and Agentic 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)
Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment
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.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
Silver Lake,Sixth StreetVERSO CapitalCapitalG,TCV
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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