Airbnb
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training
$248K–$310K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted May 5, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
United States - Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.
About the job
Fine-tunes and productionizes large language models and AI products for Airbnb, while shaping technical roadmaps and ML architecture.
What you'll do
- Build, improve, and deploy foundation models and LLM pipelines for batch and real-time use cases.
- Evaluate and select foundation models for performance and efficiency; develop a multi-year technology roadmap.
- Drive AI product architecture and contribute to Airbnb’s ML platform architecture and strategy.
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.
- Post-training experience in the listed areas, or specialized experience in runtime optimization, quantization, compression, on-device or GPU inference, PyTorch, or kernel development.
Pay
$248,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
LLM fine-tuning, alignment, optimization, evaluation, and production deployment; AI assistants, autonomous agents, recommendations, and travel planning.
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