Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training
Core
Fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs and optimizing models for high-performance deployment on Airbnb's ML Infrastructure to enable AI products like AI Assistants and autonomous agents.
Role type
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Post Training)
Builds
AI products including AI Assistant, Autonomous agents, recommendation systems, and travel planning tools.
Domain
Travel industry + Generative AI / Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM fine-tuning, model alignment, reinforcement learning, efficient training and inference, language model evaluation, multilingual and multimodal modeling, model quantization, compression, on-device inference, GPU inference, kernel development
Preferred skills
Experience with large scale structured and unstructured data, creating multi-year tech roadmaps, hands-on prototyping and productionizing LLM pipelines at scale, driving AI architectural decisions
Technologies
PyTorch, Python
Responsibilities
Explore, experiment, build and continuously improve foundation models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases; Create a multi-year tech roadmap to stay on the leading edge of the AI landscape; Continuously evaluate recent and upcoming large foundational models; Hands-on prototype, develop and productionize LLM models and pipelines at scale; Drive key AI architectural decisions for products
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship
