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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