Remote Senior ML Engineer - Relevance & Personalization

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 200.000 - 235.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Relevance and Personalization team, focusing on query understanding, autocomplete, and NLP-driven experiences for search across Stays and Experiences.

You will build scalable ML models, work with big data, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and apply modern NLP and LLM techniques to improve ranking and recommendation on the global platform.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
• Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java / C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills.
• Deep understanding of ML best practices (training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection), algorithms (neural networks/deep learning) and NLP/domain knowledge.
• Experience with 3+ of these technologies: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow (or equivalent), Kafka (or equivalent), data warehouse (eg. Hive).
• Experience applying large language models and modern NLP — e.g., sequence tagging/NER, text generation, intent classification, or embedding/representation learning.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software applications.

Aufgaben

• 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, with a focus on query understanding.
• Develop query understanding capabilities — autocomplete and smart compose, query tagging (sequence tagging / NER), query expansion, and query/user intent modeling — and natural-language search experiences powered by modern NLP and LLMs.
• 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.
• Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.
• Leverage third-party and in-house Machine Learning tools & infrastructure to develop reusable, highly differentiating and high-performing Machine Learning systems, enable fast model development, low-latency serving and ease of model quality upkeep.
• Example projects include: smart compose and language generation for search, LLM-based sequence taggers, LLM-driven query/location expansion, intent classification, and user-intent sequence modeling.

Kenntnisse

Scala

Python

Java

C++

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Kubernetes

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Hive

Ausbildung

MS or PhD in relevant fields

Jobbeschreibung

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Relevance and Personalization team, focusing on query understanding, autocomplete, and NLP-driven experiences for search across Stays and Experiences.

You will build scalable ML models, work with big data, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and apply modern NLP and LLM techniques to improve ranking and recommendation on the global platform.