Drimva

Expedia

Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Personalization

$173K–$299K

USA - California - San Jose +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026

Location
USA - California - San Jose
Washington - Seattle Campus
Experience
8+ years of relevant professional experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.

About the job

Build and operate production machine-learning systems that personalize travel experiences through recommendations, ranking, retrieval, and traveler understanding.

What you'll do

  • Design and deliver end-to-end ML solutions, from problem formulation and data exploration through model development, evaluation, and iteration.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to integrate ML into scalable services and workflows.
  • Improve technical quality through experimentation, documentation, mentoring, and reusable approaches.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience.
  • 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
  • Demonstrated ownership of machine-learning solutions, including problem definition, model development, evaluation, and operationalization.
  • Strong foundation in machine-learning methods, statistical analysis, experimentation, and data-driven decision making, with hands-on coding experience.

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree in a related quantitative field; experience delivering ML solutions at scale.
  • Experience in recommendation, ranking, retrieval, personalization, or related applied ML systems, including neural recommenders or foundation-model-based personalization.

Pay

$187,000.00 to $261,500.00 USD total cash; up to $299,000.00 USD total cash (top of range) in San Jose; $173,000.00 to $242,500.00 USD total cash; up to $277,000.00 USD total cash (top of range) in Seattle.

AI focus

Develop and operate deep-learning personalization systems, including recommendation, ranking, retrieval, sequential modeling, and foundation-model-based personalization; integrate AI/ML-enabled solutions into real-world products.

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