Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Offline Risk team as a Software Engineer and contribute to creating the safest travel platform. You will architect and build user products, develop machine learning models for risk detection, and integrate real-time risk detection into Airbnb services. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is crucial. The role involves improving fraud investigation tools, creating products to deter bad actors, and educating users on safety standards. This US-based remote eligible position requires 2+ years of industry experience and expertise in areas such as Java/Scala, machine learning, and large-scale web applications. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 2+ years industry experience
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
• Experience or desire to work on machine learning algorithms and end-to-end model development
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, operations, and research partners

Responsibilities

• Architect powerful end-to-end user products to keep Airbnb community safe
• Build novel machine learning models to detect risk or help human make decision
• Develop scalable, real-time risk detection into Airbnb services
• Work with cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions
• Improve and extend the fraud investigation tools used by Airbnb operations. These tools aggregate and display data from across Airbnb’s internal systems, and enable our operations team to make accurate, efficient decisions on potentially fraudulent transactions, fake accounts, and more
• Develop machine learning models to detect risk that informs product decisions
• Create products to deter bad actors off of Airbnb and to restrict their usage
• Provide and educate guest and host safety standards and mitigate vulnerabilities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Java / Scala

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits