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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