Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

Airbnb

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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 · Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust team, you will design, build, and productionize end-to-end machine learning pipelines for both batch and real-time use cases. You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to develop solutions that protect the community from online and offline fraud, including account takeovers, fake accounts, payment fraud, and bot detection. The role involves feature engineering, model training, and deploying models using frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch. You will work with large-scale structured and unstructured data while writing clean, testable code in Python, with familiarity in Scala or Java. Your work addresses critical safety issues such as identity verification and reputation management to ensure a secure platform. Required expertise includes experience with gradient boosted trees, neural networks, transformers, and deep learning algorithms.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $233875 from 46 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and productionize end-to-end machine learning pipelines for both batch and real-time use cases.
  • Develop ML solutions to detect fraud, including account takeovers, fake accounts, payment fraud, and bot activity.
  • Write, review, and ship clean, testable code for model training, pipeline improvements, and feature optimization.
  • Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data to improve models for product and operational use cases.
  • Investigate emerging fraud patterns and threat signals to develop proactive ML-based detection tools.
  • Manage the full ML lifecycle including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment at scale.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to scope requirements and refine trust models based on evolving fraud landscapes.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, including building and productionizing models at scale.
  • Strong programming skills in Python are required.
  • Familiarity with Scala, Java, or equivalent languages.
  • Solid understanding of ML best practices like A/B testing, feature engineering, and algorithms such as neural networks and transformers.
  • Experience with ML frameworks and tooling including TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent.
  • Experience with data engineering and building end-to-end ML pipelines for batch and real-time systems.
  • Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software applications.
  • A Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in CS/ML or a related field.
  • Exposure to the Trust and Risk domain (e.g., fraud detection, anomaly detection) is preferred.

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