The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Champion the development of novel ML systems, product integrations, and: performance optimizations to solve real-world problems
Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering: counterparts to design and build efficient AI solutions for Airbnb CS products
Learn and share the latest AI/ML technologies with the team.
PhD or Master's degree w/ 6+ YOE in Computer Science, Machine Learning,: Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field — or equivalent industry experience
Hands-on expertise in LLM, including pretraining, fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF,: GRPO), prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and LLM evaluation frameworks
Experience building Agentic AI systems: including multi-agent orchestration, tool-use, planning, memory, and autonomous reasoning pipelines (e.g., ReAct, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)
What they're looking for
- Experience of shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale, with deep: understanding of ML infrastructure, model serving, and MLOps best practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively: across Engineering, Product, and Design organizations
