Staff Software Engineer AI, Platform

Airbnb is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build and expand the machine learning and generative AI platform. The role focuses on scalable infrastructure, data and labeling foundations, and collaborating with product teams to deliver impactful machine learning use cases.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable GenAI infrastructure to support the fast evolving needs of Airbnb teams using foundational language / vision models to power next-gen product experiences
• Drive expansions of our ML platform to improve the productivity of 200+ ML Engineers & Data Scientists who rely on us
• Create solid data foundations to power the data-driven product features (e.g. Categories) that are at the center of Airbnb’s product roadmap by creating scalable human & AI Labeling infrastructure
• Use OSS technologies such as Ray, MLFlow, Tensorflow, PyTorch, LangChain, Airflow, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Jupyterhub, etc
• Work side-by-side with customer teams including Customer Support, Search Relevance, Trust & Safety to deliver high-impact product wins

Requirements:

• 9+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience)
• Solid understanding of engineering and infrastructure best practices
• Strong coding skills in Python/Java or equivalent
• Strong Experience and knowledge of distributed systems
• Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning Platforms is a plus
• Experience developing and productionizing machine learning models is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes, Spark, Docker, Airflow is a plus