Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering

Airbnb

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$170,000–$180,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering

Join the Core ML team at Community Support as a senior AI engineer responsible for developing and enhancing Agentic AI technologies to provide exceptional customer service. You will champion the creation of novel ML systems, integrate these with products, and optimize performance using state-of-the-art techniques such as SFT, RLHF, RAG, and LLM evaluation frameworks. Your day-to-day involves hands-on work with large language models (LLMs), including pretraining and fine-tuning, while also building autonomous reasoning pipelines like ReAct or LangGraph. You must have a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related fields plus 3+ years of experience, along with expertise in shipping production-grade ML systems at scale and understanding MLOps best practices. This role requires strong communication skills to collaborate effectively across various teams within the organization.

What you'll do

  • Develop novel ML systems and product integrations to solve real-world problems.
  • Enhance AI models using SFT, RLHF, GRPO, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures.
  • Build and optimize production-grade Agentic AI systems for autonomous reasoning.
  • Implement MLOps best practices for scalable model serving and infrastructure.
  • Evaluate LLMs using advanced frameworks to ensure high performance standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML/AI solutions effectively.

What we're looking for

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI or related field with 3+ years of experience.
  • Expertise in large language models (LLM) including pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Experience building agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration and autonomous reasoning pipelines.
  • Track record of shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale with MLOps best practices.
  • Strong communication skills for effective collaboration across engineering, product, and design teams.

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