Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training

Airbnb

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Remote
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Remote
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$248,000–$310,000 / yr
Posted
175 days ago
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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.

Airbnb currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $206,000–$255,000 across 44 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training

The Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer joins the CS AI product team to drive initiatives using generative AI technologies for scalable customer service experiences. You will be responsible for fine-tuning state-of-the-art large language models for diverse use cases, including AI assistants, autonomous agents, and travel planning. Day-to-day tasks involve working with large-scale structured and unstructured data to build, prototype, and productionize models for batch and real-time use cases. You will create multi-year tech roadmaps, evaluate foundational models, and drive architectural decisions for the ML platform. Required expertise includes a PhD in a technical field, Python programming, and PyTorch. You must possess experience in post-training areas like LLM alignment, reinforcement learning, model quantization, compression, and inference runtime optimization to solve complex business and operational problems.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $246638 from 41 postings across 11 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Fine-tune state-of-the-art LLMs for diverse use cases and optimize them for high-performance deployment.
  • Prototype, develop, and productionize LLM models and pipelines for both batch and real-time use cases.
  • Create a multi-year tech roadmap to keep the team at the leading edge of AI technologies.
  • Evaluate and select high-quality foundational models to ensure performance and efficiency.
  • Drive key AI architectural decisions for products and contribute to the overall ML platform strategy.
  • Work with large-scale structured and unstructured data to improve foundation models for business use cases.
  • Implement LLM alignment, optimization, RAG/Search, and automated evaluation and testing.

What we're looking for

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of experience 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 data processing for fine-tuning, responsible LLMs, alignment, reinforcement learning, or evaluation.
  • Specialized experience in runtime optimizations, model quantization, compression, on-device inference, GPU inference, or kernel development.

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