Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments
Core
Architect and own end-to-end AI/ML solutions for Airbnb's global payments ecosystem, focusing on LLM-powered workflows, real-time fraud defense, and hyperpersonalized checkout flows.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning engineer (payments)
Builds
Production AI systems for payment settlement, fraud prevention, and host/guest payouts
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Travel
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied AI/ML, Python, Java, LLM workflows (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RLHF), hallucination mitigation, scalable inference stacks, vector search, MLOps platforms, large-scale data streaming
Preferred skills
AI/ML applications in the Payments domain
Responsibilities
Spearhead LLM agents and real-time anomaly detectors; Collaborate with product and engineering to refine AI requirements and measure business value; Design, train, deploy, and operate large-scale AI applications for batch and streaming workloads; Mentor teammates and foster an experimentation-driven environment
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
