Expedia
Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Agentic AI & GenAI Systems (Growth Marketing)
$173K–$277K
Washington - Seattle Campus · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, ML, and AI systems, with production GenAI deployments.
About the job
Build and lead production-scale agentic and generative AI systems for personalized travel discovery, marketing campaigns, and user-facing products.
What you'll do
- Architect, implement, and deploy end-to-end GenAI, RAG, and multi-agent systems, including interfaces, memory, evaluation, observability, and safety features.
- Train, adapt, fine-tune, and distill LLMs; build multimodal pipelines and large-scale behavioral embedding systems for personalization and marketing.
- Lead technical standards and design reviews, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver user-facing experiences.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in LLM training, adaptation, distillation, RLHF/DPO, and RAG systems.
- Strong foundation in NLP and experience with multimodal AI systems, including vision-language models.
- Experience building and operating multi-agent AI platforms with observability and safety frameworks.
- Background in distributed GPU training and inference, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), container orchestration, and ML tooling.
Nice to have
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Industry presence through publications, patents, talks, or open-source contributions in LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems.
Pay
$173,000.00 to $242,500.00 USD total cash; up to $277,000.00 USD total cash (top of range)
Tools
LangChain, LangSmith, AutoGen, OpenAI/Claude Agents SDK, LangGraph, Claude, AWS, Azure
AI focus
Production GenAI and agentic AI for marketing and travel discovery, including LLM training and adaptation, RAG, multi-agent systems, multimodal AI, behavioral embeddings, personalization, evaluation, safety, and monitoring.
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