Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Information Security team as a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer and contribute to enhancing security protections using data analytics, machine learning, and emerging technologies like genAI and LLMs. You will partner with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic security priorities. A typical day involves supporting and scaling security functions through applied data analytics and ML models, building and improving ML models, identifying opportunities to leverage your expertise, and collaborating with various teams. You will work through ambiguity to detailed solutions, demonstrating the ability to connect various problems and unify stakeholders. The role requires strong analytical skills, leadership, and effective communication. This US-based remote eligible position offers a competitive salary and potential for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning
• 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. 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)
• Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment
• Experience with Information Security or similar domains
• You have experience in developing and communicating effective and pragmatic strategies that you are directly responsible for and help engineering and business team(s) execute on
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Support, scale, and advance security or related functions through practical applied uses of data analytics, ML models, and integration of genAI and LLM models
• Provide strategic approaches and methodologies to advance security disciplines working with large scale structured and unstructured data, build, and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for these disciplines
• Continuously identify, drive, and support opportunities where Information Security disciplines can benefit from your area of expertise. Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations, and data scientists to do so
• Work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
• You can and support others to take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, what’s being solved for, identify a path forward, and drive an initiative over the finish-line
• You have a demonstrated ability to see the interconnectedness of not only the immediate problem you’re solving for, but also those of other organizations to unify cross-functional stakeholders to deliver solutions that are best for Airbnb vs. a single business unit
• Self-motivated, proactive and proven ability to adapt well and work with teams having different operating cadences and breadth of subject matter backgrounds
• Provide sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and a track record of taking ownership, leading data driven analyses, and influencing results
• Develop processes where little exists across large organizations, and demonstrated flexibility to get things done
• Drive technology changes to improve capabilities to protect Airbnb in your area of expertise

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits
• Remote work