Senior ML Engineer - NLP/LLM for Search (Remote)

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb's Relevance and Personalization team is hiring a senior machine learning engineer to advance query understanding across Stays, Experiences, and Services, including autocomplete, tagging, and intent modeling. You will build, productionize, and operate ML models and data pipelines at scale, collaborate with engineers, PMs, and data scientists, and push innovations in NLP and large-language models.

This US-based role is remote-eligible, with occasional office work; base pay ranges from

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in applied ML
• Strong programming skills (Python/Scala/Java/C++)
• Experience with NLP/LLMs
• Experience building end-to-end ML models
• Experience deploying ML models in production

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve ML models for search and personalization
• Productionize pipelines for batch and real-time use cases
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists
• Experiment and measure impact with A/B testing
• Apply NLP, sequence tagging, and language generation techniques
• Scale systems for high-volume data

Skills

ML engineering

Python

Scala

Java

C++

NLP

Distributed systems

Model deployment

Education

MS or PhD in relevant field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Kubernetes

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Hive

Job description

Airbnb's Relevance and Personalization team is hiring a senior machine learning engineer to advance query understanding across Stays, Experiences, and Services, including autocomplete, tagging, and intent modeling. You will build, productionize, and operate ML models and data pipelines at scale, collaborate with engineers, PMs, and data scientists, and push innovations in NLP and large-language models.

This US-based role is remote-eligible, with occasional office work; base pay ranges from