Airbnb

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform Engineering

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5 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$244k - $305k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and guide engineers in designing and building AI products and features from inception through production.
  • Build AI-powered content generation capabilities for personalized emails, push notifications, advertising copy, and creatives.
  • Develop ML/AI orchestration for audience, message, channel, and timing decisioning.
  • Design proactive marketing analyst agents that identify opportunities and convert them into executable campaigns.
  • Explore, experiment with, build, and continuously improve machine learning models and pipelines using large-scale structured and unstructured data.
  • Hands-on productionize and operate ML/AI models and pipelines for batch and real-time use cases at scale.
  • Use machine learning tools and infrastructure to enable fast model development, low-latency serving, and model quality maintenance.
  • Collaborate with product managers, operations, data scientists, and engineers to prioritize ML requirements and make engineering decisions.
  • Mentor engineers and help make ML/AI applications a core discipline for non-ML/AI engineers.
  • Build resilient, globally scalable systems and foundational components for AI-powered growth.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of industry experience in applied ML/AI, inclusive of an MS or PhD in a relevant field.
  • Strong programming and data engineering skills in Scala, Python, Java, C++, or equivalent technologies.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning best practices, including training/serving skew minimization, A/B testing, feature engineering, and feature/model selection.
  • Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and domains including neural networks, deep learning, optimization, natural language processing, computer vision, personalization, search and recommendation, marketplace optimization, and anomaly detection.
  • Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Airflow or equivalent, and Kafka or equivalent.
  • Expertise with architectural patterns for large-scale software applications, including well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms and models.
  • Experience automating processes and developing agentic AI solutions and frameworks is preferred.
  • Experience with the AI product development lifecycle from incubation through production at scale is preferred.
  • Experience building agent behavior testing frameworks and driving architectural requirements for ML infrastructure is preferred.

Benefits

  • US remote eligible, with occasional office or offsite attendance as agreed with the manager.
  • May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaC++JavaKubernetesPythonPyTorchScalaTensorFlow

Categories

Growth EngineeringML Engineering
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About Airbnb

5,001-10,000 employees

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays, experiences and services that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

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