Senior Staff ML Engineer - LLM & AI Platform Lead (Remote)

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to fine‑tune state‑of‑the‑art LLMs and optimize deployment on Airbnb’s ML infrastructure. You will partner with product managers, software engineers, data scientists and operations to design AI products such as AI Assistant, autonomous agents and travel planning that meaningfully improve the guest and host experience.

A typical day includes working with large scale data, evaluating new models, building pipelines, and productionizing LLM

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience with developing machine learning models and products at scale from inception to business impact.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on prototype, develop and productionize LLM models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.
• Drive key AI architectural decisions for products, and contribute to Airbnb's ML platform architecture and strategy.
• Create a multi-year tech roadmap that enables our team to stay on the leading edge of the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Skills

ML at scale

Python programming

Model fine-tuning

Inference optimization

Multimodal modeling

Education

PhD in CS / ML / Math / Stats

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to fine‑tune state‑of‑the‑art LLMs and optimize deployment on Airbnb’s ML infrastructure. You will partner with product managers, software engineers, data scientists and operations to design AI products such as AI Assistant, autonomous agents and travel planning that meaningfully improve the guest and host experience.

A typical day includes working with large scale data, evaluating new models, building pipelines, and productionizing LLM