Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

ABOUT THE ROLE ---------------- Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts with guests in almost every country across the globe. Our mission is to make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. As a senior technical individual contributor on our Trust team, you will play a critical role in developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud. WHAT YOU'LL DO ------------- As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with our leaders across the broader technical organization to design, execute, and deliver a complex and collaborative roadmap of Trust engineering efforts. You will be responsible for defining and executing on the long-term ML technical vision and strategy for the Trust organization, identifying key investments, architecting scalable solutions, and championing best practices that advance the state-of-the-art in production ML systems. You will also serve as a technical leader and mentor to other ML and software engineers across the organization, providing guidance on complex architectural and modeling challenges, and raising the overall technical bar. Additionally, you will drive and deliver large-scale, multi-quarter ML initiatives that span multiple teams, influencing roadmaps and ensuring alignment between platform and product. WHAT YOU'LL NEED -------------- To succeed in this role, you will need: * 12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning * 2-3+ years working with LLMs and novel GenAI technologies, with proficiency and proven experience on Agentic AI * A Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in CS/ML or related field * Strong programming skills in Scala, Python, Java, C++ or equivalent, and data engineering skills * Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices, algorithms, and domains * Experience with technologies such as AgenticAI, Tensorflow, PyTorch, and Kubernetes * Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning and Agentic infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning models WHY REMOTE ---------- This position is US - Remote Eligible, and you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. While the position is Remote Eligible, you may be required to attend occasional meetings at an Airbnb office or offsites.