Airbnb
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments
$191K–$223K
Remote-USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 26, 2026
- Location
- Remote-USA
United States - Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in applied AI/ML.
- Education
- MS or PhD in relevant fields is included in the experience requirement.
About the job
Build and operate global-scale AI/ML systems for Airbnb Payments, including fraud defenses, payment personalization, and checkout optimization.
What you'll do
- Design, train, deploy, and operate AI applications for batch and streaming workloads, with low latency, reliability, monitoring, and retraining.
- Develop LLM agents, anomaly detectors, and other AI/ML solutions; collaborate across teams to define requirements and measure business impact.
- Mentor teammates and set technical standards for model governance and production engineering.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of industry experience in applied AI/ML.
- Strong programming skills in Python or Java and data engineering skills.
- Mastery of modern AI/LLM workflows, including prompt engineering, fine tuning, hallucination mitigation, safety guardrails, and testing.
- Hands-on experience with at least three listed areas: PyTorch/TensorFlow, scalable inference stacks, vector search, orchestration/MLOps platforms, or large-scale data streaming and processing.
Nice to have
- Prior knowledge of AI/ML applications in the Payments domain.
Pay
$191,000 — $223,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Java, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Spark, Ray
AI focus
Production AI/ML for payments, including LLM agents and workflows, real-time fraud and anomaly detection, personalized checkout, model monitoring, and automated retraining.
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