Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for its Assistance Engineering team. The role develops AI systems and product integrations to create personalized, proactive customer service experiences, including chat and voice assistants.
Responsibilities
- Champion the development of novel ML systems, product integrations, and performance optimizations to solve real-world problems
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to design and build efficient AI solutions for Airbnb CS products
- Learn and share the latest AI/ML technologies with the team
Skills
- PhD or Master's degree w/ 3+ YOE in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field — or equivalent industry experience
- Hands-on expertise in LLM, including pretraining, fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF, GRPO), prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and LLM evaluation frameworks
- Experience building Agentic AI systems — including multi-agent orchestration, tool-use, planning, memory, and autonomous reasoning pipelines (e.g., ReAct, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)
- Experience of shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale, with deep understanding of ML infrastructure, model serving, and MLOps best practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, and Design organizations
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- US - Remote Eligible; must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
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