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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization
Location
United States
Posted
108 days ago
Salary
$252K - $315K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization
Airbnb
• Join Airbnb’s Relevance and Personalization team, where you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the discovery experience for over 150M global users! • Take the lead on projects that power search and recommendations across the entire Airbnb platform. • Design and deploy state-of-the-art ranking algorithms, deploying robust systems that optimize Airbnb’s most important business goals. • Our team pushes the boundaries of AI and machine learning throughout the search ranking stack, from data pipelines to feature engineering, model innovation, real-time serving, and large-scale experimentation. • Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of industry experience in applied ML/AI, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
- Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java / C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills.
- Deep understanding of ML/AI best practices (e.g. training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection), algorithms (e.g. neural networks/deep learning, optimization) and domains (e.g. natural language processing, computer vision, personalization, search and recommendation, marketplace optimization, anomaly detection).
- Experience with 3 or more of these technologies: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow (or equivalent), Kafka (or equivalent), data warehouse (e.g. Hive).
- Industry experience building end-to-end ML/AI infrastructure and/or building and productionizing ML models.
- Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models).
- Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment.
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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