Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust
Core
Designing and executing long-term ML technical vision and strategy to protect Airbnb's community from fraud and ensure trust across the platform.
Role type
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Trust & Risk)
Builds
Scalable production ML systems, anomaly detection models, and Agentic AI solutions for fraud prevention and risk evaluation.
Domain
Travel marketplace, fraud detection, risk management, Agentic AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied Machine Learning, LLMs and GenAI, Agentic AI, Scala/Python/Java/C++, Data Engineering, Gradient Boosted Trees, Neural Networks, A/B Testing, Feature Engineering, Test Driven Development
Preferred skills
Trust and Risk domain experience, Multimodality
Technologies
AgenticAI, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Define and execute long-term ML technical vision and strategy; Serve as a technical leader and mentor to other engineers; Drive large-scale, multi-quarter ML initiatives; Build and improve cutting-edge ML models for product and operational use cases; Collaborate with cross-functional partners to prioritize requirements and quantify impact; Work with trust defense teams to tackle evolving fraud attacks; Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate ML models and pipelines at scale.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
