Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Guest & Host

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to improve the Guest and Host experience by enhancing their product intelligence through advanced machine learning models.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage structured and unstructured data to build and continuously improve state of the art Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases
• Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and operations to identify problems and deploy ML capabilities
• Stay up to date with SoT models and prototype machine learning product features and iterate with product and design
• Drive best practices, develop playbooks, and create a repeatable process for shipping quality machine learning features
• Hands-on development, productionization, and maintenance of machine learning models and pipelines at scale

Requirements:

• Industry experience building and shipping end to end machine learning features
• 12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, with experience in both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
• A Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in CS/ML or related field
• Strong programming (Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) skills with data and backend engineering expertise
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices (eg. training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection) and algorithms (eg. gradient boosted trees, neural networks/deep learning, optimization)
• Experience with technologies such as: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Airflow (or equivalent), Kafka (or equivalent)
• Expertise with architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models)