Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join our Trust team at Airbnb and contribute to keeping the community safe from fraud while ensuring hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with senior leaders across the broader technical organization and be hands-on in contributing code.

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
• 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
• Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits