Senior ML Scientist: Generative AI for Travel LLMs

Booking Holdings, Inc.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Booking.com is accelerating its Generative AI research program, focusing on building, training, and deploying foundation models and fine-tuned models for travel-related tasks. The team collaborates across product managers, data scientists, and analysts to translate business needs into ML solutions.

The role centers on advancing AI applications that enhance travel planning, booking, and experiences for millions of customers through cutting-edge ML research and production deployments.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge in CV and NLP for scalable ML/Generative AI.
• Experience designing end-to-end research plans with measurable impact.
• Experience applying ML to business problems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Explore and apply state-of-the-art multimodal ML techniques.
• Train and deploy NLP/CV/LLM-finetuning models to production.
• Ensure reusable, clean, scalable code implementations.
• Conduct data analysis with metrics to evaluate models and features.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to meet latency and throughput targets.
• Partner with product managers and data scientists to translate business needs into ML solutions.

Skills

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing

ML at scale

End-to-end research planning

Large datasets

Education

MSc + 6 years experience

PhD + 4 years experience

Masters or PhD in quantitative field

Job description

Booking.com is accelerating its Generative AI research program, focusing on building, training, and deploying foundation models and fine-tuned models for travel-related tasks. The team collaborates across product managers, data scientists, and analysts to translate business needs into ML solutions.

The role centers on advancing AI applications that enhance travel planning, booking, and experiences for millions of customers through cutting-edge ML research and production deployments.