Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization

Airbnb

4d•$212,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

The Relevance and Personalization team at Airbnb is responsible for search and recommendation across the entire Airbnb digital platform. This role involves being a leader on the team, working on critical, impactful projects with a focus on developing end-to-end ranking algorithms and ecosystems for optimizing multiple critical business objectives. The team builds cutting-edge AI technologies across the end-to-end search ranking product stack, including data pipelines, feature and model innovations, and serving and experimentation efficiency. They leverage rich signals from various data types (structured, sequential, image, text, etc.) at Airbnb and collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb to develop ranking solutions and support a healthy marketplace for hosts and guests, furthering Airbnb’s mission of creating a world where people can Belong Anywhere.

Requirements

9+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java / C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills.
Deep understanding of Machine Learning 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 Machine Learning infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning 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.

Responsibilities

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.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact.
Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time 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.