Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

We're looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join our Trust team, which is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud.

As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with our leaders across the broader technical organization to design, execute and deliver in a complex and collaborative roadmap of Trust engineering efforts.

Your expertise will be crucial in defining and executing on the long-term ML technical vision and strategy for the Trust organization, identifying key investments, architecting scalable solutions, and championing best practices that advance the state-of-the-art in production ML systems.

You will serve as a technical leader and mentor to other ML and software engineers across the organization, providing guidance on complex architectural and modeling challenges, and raising the overall technical bar.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining and executing on the long-term ML technical vision and strategy for the Trust organization
• Serving as a technical leader and mentor to other ML and software engineers across the organization
• Driving and delivering large-scale, multi-quarter ML initiatives that span multiple teams
• Working with large scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for business impact and understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models

Requirements include:

• 12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning
• 2-3+ years working with LLMs and novel GenAI technologies
• Proficiency and proven experience on Agentic AI (frameworks, orchestration, architecture and productionization)
• A Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in CS/ML or related field
• Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices, algorithms, and domains
• Experience with AgenticAI, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, and industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning and Agentic infrastructure

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions.

How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range $244,000-$305,000 USD