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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence

Airbnb·📍 United States

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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: Our web and API surfaces handle requests from guests and hosts alongside a growing volume of automated agents: AI assistants, crawlers, and scrapers. We build the systems that bring clarity to this traffic, combining in-house ML and vendor signals to decide in real time how to serve billions of daily requests. Anti-bot and anti-scraping detection is our most adversarial mandate, but the wider challenge is full traffic classification: building evaluation frameworks that tell legitimate automation apart fr

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MS/PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, ML) or equivalent deep engineering experience, with significant ownership of large-scale systems measuring evasion-resistance; Preferred: PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative discipline; Exposure to LLM agent tooling and benchmarking, with a focus on optimizing inference costs against latency and value trade-offs; All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply

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