Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Core Machine Learning team as a senior backend software engineer and play a pivotal role in developing and optimizing scalable engineering evaluation solutions for Airbnb’s Generative AI products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including machine learning engineers, product managers, data scientists, and operations teams, to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the AI evaluation automation framework. A typical day involves productionizing and optimizing machine learning models and data systems, collaborating with infrastructure engineering teams, working closely with machine learning engineers to understand their needs and build solutions, participating in all phases of software development, and working with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for business impact. You will leverage your expertise in backend software engineering, machine learning, and data engineering to shape the future of Airbnb's Community Support experience. This is a remote eligible position, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites.

Requirements

• 5+ years industry engineering experience
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
• Strong programming (Python/Java) and data engineering skills
• Understanding of data structures and problem solving approaches, and ability to articulate trade offs
• Proven ability to design, productionize, and optimize batch and real-time data pipelines and systems, ensuring their quality, performance, and stability
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and ownership of problem definitions
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Productionize and optimize machine learning models and data systems (e.g., LLM-as-a-Judge) to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the AI evaluation automation framework
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to evolve how we build and test evaluation framework for Airbnb Conversational AI products
• Work closely with machine learning engineers in the Community Support Core Machine Learning team, understanding their productivity and feature pain points, and build solutions to resolve them scalably and flexibly
• Participate in all phases of software development including architecture design, implementation and testing
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand and prioritize requirements for machine learning systems and data pipelines, drive engineering decisions and quantify impact
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry experience on building end-to-end Machine Learning products
• Experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits