Currently tracking 24 active AI roles, up 31% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $117k–$310k (avg $226k).
Airbnb currently has 38 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 61%, are focused on agents. The top hiring function is Engineering, with 33 positions. Frequent tech tags include agent_orchestration, llm_observability, and rag, suggesting a focus on building and managing AI agent systems. Over the last 30 days, Airbnb has posted 11 new AI roles, representing a 38% increase compared to the prior 30-day period.
Airbnb currently has 42 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: (Contract) Senior Data Scientist, Platform Inference - MarTech DS Measurement, AI Engineer, Community Support Engineering, Android Software Engineer, Quality Platform, Engineering Manager, Core Entities & Trip Intelligence, Engineering Manager, Quality Platform. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Airbnb's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (62%), application (12%), data (12%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Airbnb is hiring AI talent in: United States (25 roles), India (6 roles), Brazil (6 roles), China (5 roles).
Job postings at Airbnb most frequently reference: agent orchestration, llm observability, model serving, evals, fine tuning.
In the past 30 days, Airbnb has posted 16 new AI-related roles. That is a +78% change versus the prior 30 days (9 → 16).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal AI/ML Researcher / Engineer Reasoning, Planning, and Decision-making systems This role focuses on researching and engineering advanced AI systems for reasoning, planning, and decision-making within a consumer platform. It involves architecting post-training intelligence frameworks, integrating Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) with Knowledge Graphs, and applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) for adaptive planning and control. The core of the role is to build cognitive AI systems that combine foundational models, memory, and recursive planning strategies, with a significant emphasis on designing and deploying multi-agent systems for distributed intelligence and complex coordination. The ultimate goal is to transform the platform from prediction-based to one capable of deliberation, foresight, and agency, impacting various user and internal workflows. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Principal Engineer -In Bayesian, Large Foundational Systems, and Distributional Reinforcement Learning Lead advanced research and development of cutting-edge AI models integrating Bayesian frameworks with advanced architectures, including Mixture of Models, multi-pass sharded systems, multitask and multi-objective optimization, and external knowledge incorporation. Innovate ways to interoperate and integrate LLMs and LMMs with Reasoning, Planning, and Decisioning abilities into Bayesian frameworks to create a seamless foundational model fabric. Ensure these models perform efficiently at scale and integrate into live systems impacting product and user experience. The role aims to transform Airbnb's AI stack into probabilistic, adaptive, uncertainty-aware intelligence systems capable of reasoning under ambiguity and continuously learning. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on post-training LLM optimization and productionization for customer support AI initiatives at Airbnb. The role involves fine-tuning, alignment, RAG/Search, evaluation, and feedback loops to enhance customer experience through AI. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering Machine Learning Engineer role focused on adopting Agentic AI technologies for customer service at Airbnb. The role involves developing AI assistants (Chat, Voice), exploring SOTA Agentic architectures, enhancing AI models and ML services, and leveraging various AI techniques like SFT, RL, Distillation, RAG, LLM evaluation, and guardrails. The goal is to transform customer service with personalized, easy-to-use, and proactive experiences, shaping ideas from inception to production. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform Engineering Senior Staff ML Engineer to build and scale a best-in-class agentic growth platform for Airbnb, driving personalized content and product experiences. The role involves developing AI-powered solutions for autonomous content generation, ML/AI orchestration for decisioning, and proactive marketing analyst agents, from inception to production. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data & Eval Senior Staff ML Engineer focused on setting technical direction and leading execution for ML evaluation and the end-to-end data flywheel powering CSxAI products. This role defines how quality is measured, how feedback is turned into learning signals, and how models and products are continuously improved safely and efficiently. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering The role focuses on leveraging Generative AI and LLMs to transform Airbnb's customer service. This involves building and enhancing AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning, RAG/Search, evaluation, feedback learning, and guardrails. The position emphasizes developing personalized, easy-to-use, and proactive customer service experiences, with many initiatives in early conceptual stages. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization Principal Machine Learning Engineer focused on fine-tuning and optimizing LLMs for Airbnb's consumer-facing products, including AI Assistants and autonomous agents. The role involves working with large datasets, developing multi-year tech roadmaps, evaluating foundational models, and productionizing LLM pipelines. Requires extensive experience in model training, fine-tuning, optimization, and post-training techniques, with a strong preference for PhDs and publication records in AI conferences. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Guest Travel Insurance (Algorithms) Senior Data Scientist role focused on building and shipping ML models for guest travel insurance personalization and recommendations. The role involves end-to-end ownership from prototype to production, including intent modeling, content personalization, and journey optimization using techniques like reinforcement learning and LLMs. It emphasizes high-velocity experimentation and collaboration with product, engineering, and legal teams. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and scaling ML infrastructure, data foundations, and productionizing ML models at Airbnb. The role involves developing and operating ML/AI models and pipelines at scale, leveraging and improving ML/AI tools and infrastructure, and contributing to generative AI initiatives. Experience with RAG, agentic AI, and AI/ML governance is also required. | DataServe | 8 |
| Staff Product Manager, AI Personalization Staff Product Manager for AI Personalization at Airbnb, focusing on building and scaling AI systems for customer support. The role involves owning the full stack of personalization, from retrieval systems to the AI experience, and ensuring AI emulates human agent judgment and empathy. Requires strong product management, technical fluency in AI/ML, and experience with personalization, RAG, and LLM architectures at consumer scale. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments Senior ML Engineer for Payments at Airbnb, focusing on building and deploying LLM-powered workflows, real-time fraud defenses, and personalized checkout flows. The role involves architecting end-to-end solutions, ensuring low latency and high reliability, and mentoring teammates. Requires 5+ years of experience in applied AI/ML, strong programming and data engineering skills, and expertise in modern LLM workflows and scalable inference stacks. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering The Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering role at Airbnb focuses on leveraging Generative AI technologies to enhance customer service. The team develops and optimizes AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning, RAG/Search, evaluation, and guardrails. The role involves building and deploying AI solutions for customer service, with opportunities to shape ideas from inception to production. Experience with LLM-driven chatbots and Agentic AI products is a plus. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, BizTech(AI Products) Senior Software Engineer focused on building AI-powered employee experience platforms, including LLM features, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and prompt optimization. The role involves taking AI prototypes to production, owning production AI systems, and implementing evaluation pipelines for responsible AI practices. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering The role focuses on driving Customer Support x Artificial Intelligence (CSxAI) initiatives by adopting Generative AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable, and exceptional service experience. This involves developing and enhancing AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning, optimization, RAG/Search, LLM evaluation, testing automation, feedback-based learning, and guardrails for various applications within Airbnb. The role also involves building and leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to transform customer service and shape ideas from inception to production. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior/ Manager, Machine Learning, Community Support Products Lead a team of ML engineers to research, design, and optimize AI models and services for customer support products, focusing on improving the end-to-end experience for guests and hosts. This role involves managing ML teams, developing large-scale ML models, and shipping AI-powered products. | Ship | 8 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Platform Senior Data Scientist to build and deploy production AI/ML systems for content integrity and trust content understanding, focusing on NLP and LLM-based models, human-in-the-loop systems, and detecting emerging risks. This role involves advancing content understanding capabilities, developing models for problematic content detection, designing ML systems for content review, and building systems to detect abuse patterns. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust team at Airbnb, focusing on developing and productionizing ML models and pipelines, including LLMs and Agentic AI, for fraud detection and platform safety. This role requires hands-on coding and technical leadership in a large-scale, regulated environment. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, BizTech Senior Software Engineer to build AI-powered employee experience platforms, focusing on democratizing AI for non-technical users. The role involves leading the design and implementation of LLM-powered features, including RAG pipelines and agent orchestration, and taking AI prototypes from concept to production at scale. Responsibilities include architecting and building production-ready AI/ML systems, developing agentic AI capabilities, implementing evaluation pipelines, and owning production AI systems end-to-end. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Lead Analyst, Advanced Analytics Lead Analyst for Advanced Analytics at Airbnb, focusing on Payments Insights. This role involves leveraging AI/ML models, experimentation, and advanced data analytics to drive data-driven decision-making within the Payments domain. The position requires strong analytical, statistical modeling, and causal inference skills, with a focus on translating technical findings into business influence. Experience in financial risk management, fraud prevention, and compliance is also crucial. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer(AI/ML), Trust Senior Software Engineer (AI/ML) on the Trust team at Airbnb, focusing on building and improving ML systems for fraud detection, user screening, and platform safety. Responsibilities include hands-on productionizing and operating ML solutions at scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the technical vision for trust defenses. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Advanced Analyst - Digital & AI Products Senior Advanced Analyst role at Airbnb focused on Digital & AI Products within the Contact Center space. The role involves driving product analytics, building scalable analytical solutions, and leading measurement for AI systems, including AI Assistants and agent-assisting tools. Key responsibilities include owning the product analytics roadmap, collaborating with engineering on logging and observability for agentic and LLM workflows, designing and evaluating A/B tests for AI features, and translating insights into strategic recommendations. The role also involves mentoring a team in AI analytics and experiment best practices. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| AI Engineer, Community Support Engineering AI Engineer to build and enhance a next-generation RAG platform and AI-powered support surfaces for customer service, focusing on scalability, availability, and integration with various teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust team responsible for developing and productionizing ML systems to protect Airbnb users from fraud and ensure platform safety. This involves building end-to-end ML pipelines, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment for both batch and real-time use cases, focusing on challenges like account takeover, fake accounts, payment fraud, and bot detection. | ServeData | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization Machine Learning Engineer focused on search and recommendation at Airbnb, developing end-to-end ranking algorithms and ecosystems for optimizing business objectives. The role involves building AI technologies across the product stack, from data pipelines to serving, and productionizing ML models at scale. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Product Manager, Relevance and Personalization Product Manager for Airbnb's Relevance and Personalization team, focusing on AI systems that connect guests to listings and personalize the travel experience. The role involves setting strategy, driving roadmap execution, and partnering with ML engineers and researchers to ship products at global scale. | Ship | 7 |
| Data Science Intern Airbnb is seeking a PhD Data Science Intern to join the Core Data Science team for their Summer Intern Program. The intern will work on the Trip Intelligence working group, focusing on improving the Guest satisfaction (GSAT) model by applying AI to various data sources. Key responsibilities include conducting literature reviews on active learning, investigating innovative approaches to labeling training and evaluation datasets, implementing an active learning pipeline, and exploring LLM labeling agents. | Post-trainData | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Airfam Products Staff Software Engineer on the Airfam Products team at Airbnb, focusing on building and scaling AI-powered employee experience platforms. The role involves shaping technical vision, driving company-wide impact through AI/LLM integration, elevating engineering excellence, and transforming AI innovations from concept to enterprise-grade deployment. Responsibilities include leading technical vision for platforms serving 10,000+ employees, architecting and implementing LLM-powered systems for internal tools like OneChat and enterprise search, mentoring engineers, and evaluating emerging AI technologies like agentic development. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Business Solutions Engineer, BizTech This role focuses on building and implementing agentic AI solutions to enhance internal workflows and provide quick solutions using internal tools. The engineer will own the product roadmap for these solutions, manage stakeholders, drive automation, and mentor junior team members, with a critical need for practical AI understanding and staying updated on AI technology changes. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Advanced Analytics, Digital & AI Products Lead Advanced Analytics role focused on AI Products within Airbnb's Contact Center organization. The role involves driving product analytics, building scalable analytical solutions, and leading measurement for AI systems. Key responsibilities include owning the product analytics roadmap, collaborating with engineering on logging and observability for agentic and LLM workflows, designing and evaluating A/B tests for AI features, and translating insights into strategic recommendations. Requires expertise in Python, SQL, A/B testing, ML/DL techniques, LLM architectures, and data engineering foundations. Familiarity with Agentic AI systems, human-in-the-loop design, AI observability, vector stores, and embeddings is also important. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Staff Data Scientist at Airbnb focused on Guest & Host marketplace optimization, ranking, and AI-powered search experiences. The role involves building and shipping customer-facing features, developing causal inference models, and creating scalable data products for ranking and personalization. It requires expertise in machine learning, causal inference, and collaboration with ML Engineers and Product teams to launch and evaluate AI-driven improvements. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Intern (PhD) Airbnb is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Intern (PhD) for their 2026 Summer Intern Program. The intern will work on applying new advancements in ML and AI to search relevance and personalization, driving a project from end-to-end. The role involves collaboration, communication with stakeholders, and contributing to challenging projects within the Search Relevance and Personalization team. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Communication Products Staff Software Engineer on the Communication Products team at Airbnb, focusing on integrating and shipping ML-powered features into the messaging experience. This role involves architecting and delivering intelligent capabilities end-to-end, owning the full lifecycle of ML-powered features, and designing/building systems for ML model serving at scale. Familiarity with NLP/NLU, LLMs, RAG, and fine-tuning is required. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Product Manager, Trip Quality Merchandising and AI Product Manager role focused on shipping AI-powered features for guest-facing quality merchandising on Airbnb. This involves defining requirements for generative AI and ML ranking systems, partnering with Data Science to evaluate model performance, and ensuring trust and quality in the marketplace. The role requires a strong understanding of AI/ML outputs and translating them into product decisions, with a focus on consumer products and global scale. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer -Payments Senior Software Engineer on the Payments AI/ML Foundation team, responsible for designing and owning core platform components that power AI across Airbnb Payments. This includes building infrastructure for training, evaluation, inference, and operations, with a focus on model lifecycle, observability, governance, cost/latency optimization, and developer ergonomics. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust systems, building tooling for safer and faster AI development, and ensuring reliability and performance for models and agents in production. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb focused on relevance and personalization, responsible for search and recommendation systems. The role involves developing end-to-end ranking algorithms, building and productionizing ML models and pipelines at scale, and leveraging ML infrastructure for low-latency serving. The position requires significant industry experience in applied ML and strong data engineering skills. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Staff GenAI Backend Engineer, Automation Foundation Staff GenAI Backend Engineer focused on the Automation Foundation team at Airbnb, working on a large-scale conversational AI platform and automating provisioning for internal human and AI agents. The role involves leading technical vision, backend system development, prompt engineering, and RAG patterns for AI/LLM-driven scenarios within consumer support. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Listings and Host Tools Data and AI Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb to build and productionize ML models and pipelines for Listings and Host Tools, focusing on host personalization and experience. This role involves working with large-scale data, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and developing end-to-end ML infrastructure and serving APIs. | Serve | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Quality Platform Engineering Manager for Airbnb's Quality Platform team, focusing on building an AI-native full-cycle testing platform. This role involves leading a team to integrate AI/LLMs into testing processes for autonomous test discovery, predictive failure analysis, and self-healing automation, aiming to prevent bugs and improve software shipping quality at scale. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AI Senior Staff Data Scientist to join the Guest Data Science team, focusing on using AI and causal inference to understand user behavior, detect intent, and build data products for a personalized guest experience. The role involves leading innovation, shaping data strategy, and collaborating with Product to optimize in-product experiences and UX design. Responsibilities include analyzing user behavior, developing technical frameworks, building prototypes with AI toolkits, evaluating preferences, and influencing strategy through presentations. Requires expertise in causal inference, marketplace experience, advanced degree, and strong programming skills in Python/R and SQL. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Communication & Connectivity Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb focused on Communication & Connectivity, architecting and implementing advanced ML solutions including recommendation engines, ranking systems, intent detection models, and LLM integrations for customer-facing products. The role involves shaping ideas from inception to production and leading ML, Data, and Product engineers. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Quality Platform Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve AI-native quality workflows at Airbnb, applying AI directly to the testing lifecycle using LLMs and intelligent automation to improve developer and quality engineer productivity. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead, Advanced Analytics, Hosting Services (Mexico) Lead, Advanced Analytics role at Airbnb focusing on Hosting Services in Mexico and Brazil. The role involves in-depth data analysis, statistical modeling, metric definition, impact assessment, experimentation, and synthesis of insights to inform prioritization for programs like Co-Host Network and Superhost Ambassadors. A key responsibility is to develop and support agentic workflows and AI-assisted tools to automate data analysis and reporting, and leverage LLMs. The role requires strong quantitative skills, experience in marketplace analytics, and stakeholder management. | Agent | 5 |
| Lead, Advanced Analytics, Hosting Services (Brazil) Lead Advanced Analytics role for Airbnb's Hosting Services in Brazil, focusing on analyzing supply programs, defining metrics, conducting experiments, and building dashboards. The role involves developing agentic workflows and AI-assisted tools for data analysis automation and requires familiarity with LLMs. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager, Guest & Host Tech This role is for a Staff Technical Program Manager at Airbnb, focusing on the Guest and Host Tech experience. The TPM will manage complex, cross-functional projects, improve processes, and act as a force multiplier. While the role requires experience with Machine Learning and Data Science, and leveraging AI for automation, the core function is program management, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role is responsible for shipping AI-powered products or features, hence L6, but the TPM's direct craft is not AI. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Core Entities & Trip Intelligence This role manages a team of engineers building foundational data infrastructure for Airbnb's AI products. It involves owning the Entity Data Foundation, ensuring high-quality data for downstream AI teams, and leading the development of the Trip Intelligence real-time data product. The role focuses on data engineering, platform engineering, and real-time data processing to support AI initiatives and improve user experiences. | Data | 5 |
| Product Manager, Guest Discovery & Homepage Product Manager for Airbnb's homepage and guest discovery, responsible for making it effortless for guests to discover relevant offerings. This role involves partnering with engineering, design, and data teams to invent new browsing tools using AI technologies and intuitive UI formats, and collaborating with marketing for lifecycle campaigns. | — | 5 |
| Lead, Advanced Analytics, Acquisition Lead, Advanced Analytics, Acquisition role at Airbnb focused on driving new host acquisition and business growth through in-depth data analysis, metric definition, experimentation, and providing strategic insights. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing AI-assisted analytics tools. | — | 5 |
| Senior Staff, Advanced Analytics Senior Staff, Advanced Analytics role at Airbnb focused on growing the guest app experience by leading data strategy for promotional experience innovation, improving conversion, and developing a multi-product app experience. Requires expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, experimentation, and causal inference, with familiarity with LLMs. The role involves partnering with senior stakeholders, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and designing/analyzing experiments. AI-assisted tools are used for efficiency. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining technology, architecture, and solutions for Airbnb's global community support operations. The role involves developing tools and systems to enhance service reliability, monitoring, and alerting, with a specific emphasis on moving incident management towards proactive and automated systems using AI and other technologies. | — | 5 |