Remote ML Engineer for Agentic AI & LLM Systems

airbnb, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 162,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for Assistance Engineering to advance the evolution of AI-powered customer experiences. You will contribute to building scalable ML systems, chat AI assistants, and agentic architectures to improve guest and host interactions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and design, hands-on ML work, and deploying models in production, with emphasis on SFT, RLHF, RAG, and memory-enabled reasoning.

Qualifications

• PhD or Masters degree in CS/ML/AI or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Hands-on expertise with LLMs including pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Experience shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale.
• Strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with agentic AI, multi-agent orchestration and tool use.

Responsibilities

• Champion the development of novel ML systems and performance optimizations.
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to build AI solutions.
• Learn and share the latest AI/ML technologies with the team.

Skills

LLM development

Agentic AI

ML infrastructure

MLOps practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

PhD or Masters degree w/ 3+ YOE in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI or related field, or equivalent industry experience

Tools

SFT

RLHF

GRPO

RAG

LangGraph

AutoGen

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer for Assistance Engineering to advance the evolution of AI-powered customer experiences. You will contribute to building scalable ML systems, chat AI assistants, and agentic architectures to improve guest and host interactions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and design, hands-on ML work, and deploying models in production, with emphasis on SFT, RLHF, RAG, and memory-enabled reasoning.