Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance

Airbnb, a global leader in the travel and hospitality industry founded in 2007, is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their Relevance and Personalization team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of search and personalization across Airbnb's digital platform.

The position focuses on critical projects in search ranking, recommendations, autocomplete, query understanding, and Airbnb's ranking platform. You'll be working with cutting-edge machine learning technologies and large-scale data to enhance the guest search experience and support a healthy marketplace for both hosts and guests.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and data scientists. You'll be responsible for building and improving machine learning models, developing infrastructure, and driving engineering decisions that have direct business impact.

The role requires extensive experience in applied Machine Learning (12+ years) and strong programming skills. You'll work on sophisticated projects including feature platform development, model interpretability, hyperparameter optimization, and concept drift detection. The position offers competitive compensation ($252,000 - $315,000) and the flexibility of remote work within the United States.

This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned ML professional who wants to make a significant impact at a company that's revolutionizing the travel industry. You'll be working on problems that affect millions of users worldwide while helping to fulfill Airbnb's mission of creating a world where anyone can belong anywhere.