Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform

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 conne...

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.

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.

Envision, champion, and support 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 across regions( China and the US). 

 

PhD/Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
2-4 years of ML engineering experience, with ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems. 
Background in the design and development of AI and ML systems and services, and a deep passion for building efficient and scalable ML-powered products
Experience with LLM driven chatbot and Agentic AI products would be a big plus
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering, product & design organizations
Fluency in both English and Mandarin is essential.