Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments - Airbnb
View Company Profile- Job Title
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments
- Job Location
- United States
- Job Listing URL
- https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/5873995?gh_jid=5873995
- Job Description
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:
Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments org at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace and makes the Payment experience as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible. At the Payments modeling team, our goal is to empower the mission by introducing intelligences and personalizations that optimize Airbnb’s massive daily transaction volume to best collect payments from guests, distribute payouts to hosts while preventing fraudulent transactions from happening.
The Difference You Will Make:
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, your expertise will be pivotal in developing cutting-edge Machine learning solutions including generative AI to define and shape the future of the Airbnb Payments experience. you will also partner with product managers, software engineers, and operation teams to leverage engineering innovations to simplify the business requirements into scalable solutions.
A Typical Day:
- Design, develop, productionize and operate Machine learning models, including Large-Language-Models, and pipelines at scale, for both batch and real-time use cases.
- Collaborate with machine learning infrastructure engineering teams to evolve how we build reusable and scalable AI solutions for Airbnb products.
- Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge machine learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases.
- Leverage third-party and in-house Machine Learning tools & infrastructure to develop reusable, highly differentiating and high-performing machine learning systems, enable fast model development, low-latency serving and ease of model quality upkeep.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand and prioritize requirements for machine learning systems and data pipelines, drive engineering decisions and quantify impact.
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
- Strong programming (Python/Java) and data engineering skills.
- Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices (eg. training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection), algorithms (eg. gradient boosted trees, neural networks/deep learning, optimization) and domains (eg. natural language processing, personalization and recommendation).
- Experience with 3 or more of these technologies: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow (or equivalent), Kafka (or equivalent), data warehouse (eg. Hive).
- Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning models.
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models).
- Prior knowledge of ML Applications in the Payments domain is highly desirable.
Your Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
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. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
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$185,000—$223,000 USD
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Airbnb Company Size
Between 6,907 - 6,907 employees
Airbnb Founded Year
2008
Airbnb Total Amount Raised
$6,423,131,648
Airbnb Funding Rounds
View funding detailsDebt Financing
$1,000,000,000 USD
Private Equity
$1,000,000,000 USD
Secondary Market
$25,000,000 USD
Series F
$1,003,312,065 USD
Debt Financing
$1,000,000,000 USD
Series E
$100,000,000 USD
Series E
$1,500,000,000 USD
Series D
$475,000,000 USD
Series C
$200,000,000 USD
Series B
$112,000,000 USD
Series A
$7,200,000 USD
Seed
$600,000 USD
Pre Seed
$20,000 USD