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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training
Location
United States
Posted
26 days ago
Salary
$248K - $310K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training
Airbnb
• Work with large scale structured and unstructured data; explore, experiment, build and continuously improve foundation models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases. • Create a multi-year tech roadmap that enables our team to stay on the leading edge of the rapidly evolving AI landscape and leverage the best in class technologies to deliver customer benefits. • Continuously evaluate recent and upcoming large foundational models, ensuring the selection and refinement of the highest quality models for enhanced performance and efficiency. • Hands-on prototype, develop and productionize LLM models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases. • Drive key AI architectural decisions for products, and contribute to Airbnb’s ML platform architecture and strategy.
Job Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience with developing machine learning models and products at scale from inception to business impact.
- Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Proven record of training, fine tuning, optimizing models and inference run-time.
- Post-training experience in areas like data processing for fine-tuning; responsible LLMs; LLM alignment; reinforcement learning; efficient training and inference; language model evaluation; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling.
- Or specialized experience in runtime optimizations, model quantization, compression, on-device inference, GPU inference, pytorch, kernel development.
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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