Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization
Airbnb
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This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $207,500–$257,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $232k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 65 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $200,000–$240,000 across 51 roles with salary data.
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence will join the team responsible for distinguishing legitimate automation from abusive actors to protect web and API surfaces. You will architect and maintain end-to-end traffic classification systems, managing the full lifecycle of scoring models from problem framing to real-time deployment at the internet edge. Your daily work involves building offline-to-online data pipelines, creating certified source-of-truth datasets, and optimizing models within strict millisecond latency budgets. You will address adversarial challenges like bot mitigation and fraud by developing robust evaluation frameworks using metrics such as ROC/AUC and precision/recall. The role requires expertise in production ML, warehouse-scale SQL, feature engineering on high-volume streams, and internet edge infrastructure like CDN and HTTP/TLS signatures. You will also serve as a technical authority, translating complex model trade-offs into scalable engineering guidance for cross-functional partners.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $229700 from 72 postings across 27 companies.
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