Senior Machine Learning Engineer 5

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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Relevance and Personalization team at Airbnb is responsible for search and recommendation across the entire Airbnb digital platform. In this role you'll focus on query intelligence, the front door of search working on critical, impactful projects that turn what a guest types, taps, or says into a precise understanding of their intent, spanning autocomplete and smart compose, query tagging, query expansion, and intent modeling across Stays, Experiences, and Services. The Difference You Will Make: Query understanding is where every search begins, and it directly shapes retrieval, ranking, and ultimately the perfect match between guests and hosts. We build cutting-edge AI technologies across the end-to-end search ranking product stack w.r.t. data pipelines, feature and model innovations, serving and experimentation efficiency, leveraging rich signals from various types of data (structured, sequential, image, text, etc) and increasingly large language models at Airbnb. You'll build the models that parse free-form and natural-language multimodal queries, extract entities and location context, classify intent, and anticipate what guests want before they finish typing. We collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb to develop the ranking solutions and support a healthy marketplace for hosts and guests to further Airbnb's mission of creating a world where people can Belong Anywhere. Some past publications from the team can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/airbnb-relevance-publications/home A Typical Day: Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build an

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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be a part of Airbnb's innovative pricing guidance team. Our team is a diverse group of engineers, data scientists, and product managers who are dedicated to creating optimal pricing models for our hosts. We work closely with product engineers, designers, and other cross-functional partners to ensure our models are effective, user-friendly, and contribute to the success of our hosts. ners The Difference You Will Make: In this role, you will be responsible for developing and refining machine learning models for pricing recommendations, with a particular focus on reinforcement learning techniques. Success in this role will be measured by the accuracy and effectiveness of these models, and their impact on host success rates. You will also be involved in project planning and prioritization, ensuring that our team's efforts align with Airbnb's broader strategic goals. A Typical Day: Collaborating with data scientists and product managers to understand project requirements and desired outcomes Developing, testing, and refining machine learning models, particularly reinforcement learning models, for pricing recommendations Analyzing model performance and making necessary adjustments Presenting findings and progress updates to team members and stakeholders Working with product engineers and designers to integrate models into user-friendly tools for hosts Your Expertise: 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering Proven experience in developing and implementing machine learning models, preferably reinforcement learning mo

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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe. The Trust team is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.). We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community. You'll work side-by-side with talented product managers, data scientists, software engineers, fraud intelligence, and operations teams. Together, you'll design and build ML solutions that have direct, meaningful impact on user trust, business success, and the global Airbnb community. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust team, you will actively contribute code and ideas that shape the ML systems protecting millions of Airbnb users. You'll own and deliver ML projects end-to-end — from designing and training models to productionizing and operating them at scale, while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners. You'll tackle real-world challenges such as account takeover, fake accounts, payment fraud, and bot detection. Your work

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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Your Location: This position is CHINA BASED . The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies. The Community You Will Join: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are at the heart of the Airbnb product. From Trust to Payments, and from Customer Service to Marketing we rely on ML to ensure that guests and hosts have the best possible experience with Airbnb. The Community Support Products (CSP) Machine Learning team is the core team responsible for driving CSxAI (Customer Support x Artificial Intelligence) initiatives by adopting the Generative AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable and exceptional service experience. The team develops and enhances various AI models, ML services and tools including LLM fine-tuning and optimization, RAG/Search, LLM evaluation and testing automation, feedback-based learning and guardrail for a wide range of applications in Airbnb. The richness of Airbnb's data, the complexity of its marketplace and the variety innate in our product mean that we need to operate at the state of the art of AI practice. We are committed to investing in long term innovation to solve the complex problems we face, and to do that we need the very best experts in ML and AI to join us. The Difference You Will Make: We believe our current customer experiences in these domains are only scratching the surface of the innovations that are possible

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team The Embedded Insights team supports Plaid’s mission to build a world-class suite of intelligence products. We identify the best opportunities to use machine learning in Plaid products, prove out those opportunities, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to turn them into real-world production systems. About the Role As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Embedded Insights, you will help shape Plaid’s future by building machine learning-powered products and features. You will initially support the Plaid App, working on a 0-to-1 consumer-facing product and helping establish product-market fit for a new business line. You will work closely with product managers, data scientists, engineers, customers, and other machine learning engineers to translate ambiguous opportunities into effective ML systems that create measurable customer value. In supporting the Plaid App, you will: Build machine learning-based features for a 0-to-1 consumer-facing product. Partner with product managers to translate ambiguous business requirements into machine learning problems and influence product strategy and roadmap decisions. Rapidly iterate and experiment to help drive product

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Data team within Plaid’s Fraud organization builds the machine learning systems that power Plaid’s fraud detection products, leveraging Plaid’s unique network data to identify and stop fraud before it happens. The team owns the full ML lifecycle—from feature pipelines and model training to production serving and monitoring—building reliable, scalable systems that deliver high-quality fraud detection as we grow to support hundreds of customers. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the development of high-performance feature computation and online inference pipelines that power production machine learning systems at scale. You’ll build robust observability, monitoring, and automated debugging capabilities, while leveraging AI-assisted tools to investigate complex system behavior and maintain high reliability. You’ll partner closely with ML Infrastructure, Data Science, and Product teams to execute critical technical initiatives and deliver scalable, high-impact ML solutions. Responsibilities: Build and scale machine learning systems that power a rapidly growing fraud detection product in a fast-paced environment. Solve complex technical challenges at the intersect