Airbnb
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust
$244K–$305K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 5, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
United States - Experience
- 12+ years in applied Machine Learning; 2-3+ years working with LLMs and novel GenAI technologies.
- Education
- A Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in CS/ML or related field
About the job
Leads Trust machine-learning strategy and delivers production ML systems that detect fraud and protect Airbnb’s community and platform.
What you'll do
- Define ML technical vision and architecture, and lead large, cross-team initiatives.
- Build, productionize, and operate scalable ML models and pipelines for batch and real-time use cases.
- Mentor engineers and partner across teams to prioritize use cases, guide technical decisions, and measure impact.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning.
- 2-3+ years working with LLMs and novel GenAI technologies, with proven Agentic AI experience.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in CS/ML or related field.
- Strong programming and data engineering skills; experience building end-to-end ML and Agentic infrastructure and/or productionizing ML models.
Nice to have
- Experience with the Trust and Risk domain.
Pay
$244,000 — $305,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Python, Java, C++, AgenticAI, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes
AI focus
Develops production ML and Agentic AI systems for trust and fraud defense, including anomaly detection, continuous risk evaluation, multimodality, and agentic applications.
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