Drimva

Airbnb

Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization

$292K–$365K

United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted May 24, 2026

Experience
10+ years developing machine learning models and products at scale.
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.

About the job

Fine-tunes and optimizes large language models and production pipelines for Airbnb products, while shaping AI architecture and technical roadmaps.

What you'll do

  • Build and productionize LLM models and pipelines for batch and real-time applications.
  • Evaluate, select, and refine foundation models for performance and efficiency.
  • Set AI technical roadmaps and contribute to product and ML platform architecture.

What they ask for

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years 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 model training, fine-tuning, optimization, and inference runtime experience, including post-training or specialized runtime optimization experience.

Nice to have

  • Publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, or ACL.
  • Experience with AI in customer support, AI product development through production, or business-critical AI services and ML infrastructure.

Pay

$292,000 — $365,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, PyTorch

AI focus

LLM fine-tuning, alignment, optimization, evaluation, efficient training and inference, and production AI applications.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)