Airbnb
Consumer · Travel marketplace
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2008
- Size
- 7,000+
- Funding
- Public (ABNB)
- Website
- airbnb.com
- Blog
- medium.com
Products
Airbnb currently has 36 active job listings related to Artificial Intelligence. The majority of these roles, 64%, are focused on the agents stage, with application stage roles making up another 22%. The top function for these positions is Engineering, followed by Product. Frequent tech tags include agent_orchestration, llm_observability, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on building and managing AI systems.
Currently tracking 22 active AI roles, with 106 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $117k–$310k (avg $214k).
Consumer · Travel marketplace
Airbnb currently has 40 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: (Contract) Senior Data Scientist, Platform Inference - MarTech DS Measurement, Lead Analyst, Advanced Analytics, Lead, Advanced Analytics, Hosting Services (Brazil) , Lead, Advanced Analytics, Hosting Services (Mexico), Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Airbnb's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (60%), application (28%), evaluation (5%). 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 (29 roles), China (4 roles), Brazil (4 roles), India (3 roles).
Job postings at Airbnb most frequently mention: Machine Learning, System Design, Market & Technology Trend Analysis, Statistics, Large Language Models (LLMs).
In the past 30 days, Airbnb has posted 19 new AI-related roles. That is a +36% change versus the prior 30 days (14 → 19).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on relevance and personalization, responsible for search and recommendation systems on the Airbnb platform. This role involves developing end-to-end ranking algorithms, building and improving ML models for various use cases, and productionizing ML pipelines at scale, leveraging large-scale data and cutting-edge AI technologies. | ShipServe | 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 |
| Compensation Partner This role serves as the dedicated compensation partner for Airbnb's Technology organization, including Engineering, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, and Data Science. The primary focus is on supporting VP and Director level tech leaders by managing compensation cycles, conducting market research for technical roles (especially in AI/ML), and designing/building compensation models and AI-powered tools. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in technical compensation, and the ability to build and present data-driven recommendations. | — | 5 |
| Tech Lead Manager, Finance Integrations & Automation - BizTech Tech Lead Manager for Finance Integrations & Automation at Airbnb, focusing on leading a team of engineers, setting technical direction, and hands-on coding for ERP and finance integrations. The role involves building AI-assisted automations and exploring GenAI, with a requirement for experience using AI in product development. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering Backend Software Engineer on the Ambassador Routing & Channels (ARC) team, responsible for powering intelligent, differentiated service experiences for customer support. The role involves contributing to and leading engineering delivery on programs for intelligent agent matching, personalized support, and next-gen routing capabilities. Key responsibilities include owning and evolving core routing infrastructure, decision engines, workflow orchestration, and routing rule management, while collaborating cross-functionally and ensuring high availability, correctness, and scalability. The role also focuses on improving AI prompt effectiveness and optimizing AI-driven routing workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Platform Manager, Airfam Products Product Manager for Airbnb's internal digital headquarters (Airfam Products), focusing on employee experience, AI-powered productivity, and organizational knowledge. This role will define product vision, strategy, and roadmap for internal products like One Airbnb, Chrome Tab, and Awedience, collaborating with engineering, design, and data science to ship features and evaluate new product opportunities, including AI integration. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Growth Marketing Lead, Engagement Senior Growth Marketing Lead, Engagement at Airbnb, focusing on lifecycle strategy and execution for membership and incentive programs. This role leverages insights, data, and ML/AI-based decisioning to personalize guest journeys primarily through email and push notifications. It involves partnering with various teams including Data Science and Product to optimize campaigns and drive top-line impact. | — | 5 |
| Lead Advanced Analytics, Guest Product Lead Advanced Analytics role for Airbnb's Guest Product team, focusing on data analysis, experimentation, statistical modeling, and developing reporting tools to drive product and strategic decisions. Requires strong analytical and communication skills, with experience in A/B testing and AI-assisted analytics. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Services Product Manager for Airbnb's new Guest Services business line, focusing on defining and launching services that enhance the guest experience. This role involves end-to-end product ownership, from strategy and roadmap to shipping and iteration, with a strong emphasis on user obsession, data-driven decisions, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires experience in taking 0->1 product ideas to scale and leveraging AI tools for prototyping. | — | 5 |
| Growth Marketing Lead, SEM This role leads Airbnb's Global Host SEM program, focusing on efficient host acquisition and long-term supply growth. It involves managing large-scale SEM investments, designing experiments, optimizing performance, and collaborating cross-functionally. The role also leverages AI and automation for efficiency and requires strong technical SEM expertise, budget management, and executive communication skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - Communication & Connectivity Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering focused on Communication & Connectivity at Airbnb. This role involves driving AI strategy, leading ML initiatives from concept to production, ensuring data pipeline quality, and mentoring a team of ML/Data engineers. The focus is on applying AI to enhance guest and host experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Content Platform Senior Software Engineer to build and lead a no-code/low-code platform for marketing content authoring, segmentation, and lifecycle management. The role involves owning the serving and hydration of personalized marketing content across various channels, ensuring high quality and uptime. It also includes technical leadership, architectural design, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Dev Tools Software Engineer on the Dev Tools team at Airbnb, responsible for building and operating foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted development. This includes cloud development environments, agent execution platforms, source control, code review, and monorepo tooling. The role focuses on distributed systems, Kubernetes, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, with a high impact on all Airbnb engineers and AI agents. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Trust (Inference) Senior Data Scientist role focused on Trust at Airbnb, applying ML and causal inference to detect and defend against adversarial behavior like fraudulent listings, fake inventory, review manipulation, and account takeovers. The role involves designing measurement and evaluation frameworks, leading experiments, building statistical and Bayesian models for risk quantification and treatment effects, and generating insights to inform product and policy decisions. Emphasis on rigorous statistical thinking, applied ML, and influencing cross-functional teams to enhance platform safety and user trust. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Dev Tools Software Engineer on the Dev Tools team at Airbnb, responsible for building and operating foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted development. This includes cloud development environments, agent execution platforms, source control, code review, and monorepo tooling. The role focuses on distributed systems, Kubernetes, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, with a high impact on all Airbnb engineers and AI agents. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Incubations Product Manager for Airbnb's incubation machine, focused on rapidly testing and launching new business ideas that extend beyond core stays. The role involves owning product work across multiple incubation tracks, designing and piloting MVPs, and making data-driven recommendations. Requires strong consumer product management experience, ability to operate in ambiguity, and excellent cross-functional collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Sr Social Measurement Lead Senior Social Measurement Lead at Airbnb to build and own the social media measurement strategy for global marketing and comms teams. This role involves defining measurement frameworks, leading test-and-learn agendas, driving insights, and applying AI to enhance analytical depth and speed. The candidate will partner with various teams to understand social media's impact on business outcomes and guide strategic decisions. | — | 5 |
| Associate Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics This role is for an Associate Principal in Strategic Finance & Analytics at Airbnb, focusing on driving the growth of Airbnb's homes supply. The position involves partnering with business leaders to measure initiative impact, influence investments, and link business actions to financial outcomes. Responsibilities include annual/quarterly planning, supporting strategic projects, providing financial insights through reporting and analytics, presenting to stakeholders, analyzing business trends, and managing budgets. The role requires 5+ years of FP&A/business strategy experience, strong financial acumen, and the ability to use AI to enhance processes. | — | 5 |
| Growth Marketing Lead, Guest Engagement This role focuses on growth marketing for guest engagement on Airbnb, defining and executing lifecycle strategies across email and push notifications. It involves leveraging segmentation, personalization, and AI-driven insights to improve campaign performance and customer engagement, partnering closely with data science, product, and engineering teams. The primary goal is to turn guest interest into bookings and drive top-line impact. | — | 5 |
| Process Strategy and Optimization Lead This role focuses on driving operational excellence and process optimization within Airbnb's Fraud and Safety Operations. The lead will manage large-scale, cross-functional initiatives to improve quality, efficiency, and user experience, with a specific emphasis on the thoughtful application and execution of AI to enhance operational processes. The role requires strong problem-solving, data analysis, and stakeholder management skills, aiming to integrate AI solutions to minimize waste and drive consistency. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist - Inference, Community Support Data Scientist role focused on causal inference and ML models for community support at Airbnb. The role involves designing experiments, building causal ML models for optimization, and analyzing the impact of product changes to improve customer support experiences. It requires strong statistical and ML modeling skills, with a focus on production deployment and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Senior Platform Manager, Trust and Safety Product Manager for Airbnb's Trust and Safety team, focusing on reducing safety incidents by building machine learning models and defenses. The role involves defining product strategy, managing roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver safety products and platforms. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Frontend Engineer, Quality Platform Senior Frontend Engineer responsible for building and maintaining the user interface for an agentic testing platform, making complex AI-driven testing workflows accessible and intuitive for other engineers. The role involves partnering with backend and applied AI engineers to expose platform capabilities. | Agent | 5 |
| Frontend Engineer, Quality Platform Frontend Engineer responsible for building and maintaining the user interface for Airbnb's Quality Platform, which integrates LLMs and intelligent automation into the testing lifecycle. The role focuses on making complex AI-driven testing workflows accessible and intuitive for engineers. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Dev Tools Senior Software Engineer on the Dev Tools team at Airbnb, focusing on building and operating foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted development. The role involves designing and implementing systems for cloud development environments, agent execution platforms, Kubernetes scaling, source control, and code review to support rapid and reliable software delivery. The position emphasizes ownership of greenfield platform work, influencing technical direction, and managing infrastructure costs associated with surging agentic usage. | — | 5 |
| Staff Analyst, Advanced Analytics, Payments Staff Analyst role focused on Advanced Analytics for Airbnb's global Payments operations. The role involves driving data-informed decision-making, optimizing user journeys, and solving complex domain challenges using quantitative measurement, machine learning models, and AI. Key responsibilities include architecting reporting platforms, developing analytical frameworks, and influencing strategy through data and experimentation, with a focus on payments processing, risk, and compliance. | Agent | 5 |
| Lead, Advanced Analytics, Fraud and Safety Operations Lead, Advanced Analytics role focused on building systems to mitigate fraud and safety risks at Airbnb. This involves designing and deploying systems, defining metrics, creating data narratives, running experiments, and building tools at the intersection of policy, operations, and risk. The role emphasizes enabling non-technical teams with self-service data tools, creating scenario simulators, and operationalizing frameworks for incident assessment. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Platform Manager, Payments Risk Product Manager for Airbnb's Payments Risk domain, focusing on the post-transaction dispute lifecycle. The role involves owning the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for chargeback processing, representments, pre-arbitration, proactive dispute prevention, and on-platform resolution experiences. Key responsibilities include partnering with engineering and data science to improve dispute decisioning models, building proactive prevention capabilities, and developing scalable infrastructure for new payment methods and product verticals. The role requires experience integrating Gen AI and leveraging ML and external signals to reduce losses while balancing customer experience and marketplace trust. | Agent | 5 |
| Fraud Intelligence Lead Lead fraud intelligence efforts at Airbnb, focusing on proactive identification and mitigation of fraud through data analysis, platform controls, and cross-functional collaboration. This role involves translating complex fraud signals into actionable strategies and building scalable defenses to enhance platform trust and resilience. | — | 5 |
| Workforce Management Lead, Enterprise Ops This role focuses on workforce management and capacity planning for enterprise operations teams that utilize AI tools. The lead will optimize vendor footprint, forecast capacity needs, staff projects, and improve vendor team performance. The role involves transforming workforce data into actionable insights for senior leadership, managing project staffing, and measuring cost efficiency, including gains from AI tools. Experience introducing AI and automation to vendor workflows is required. | — | 5 |
| Responsable, Gestion des Effectifs, Opérations This role focuses on workforce planning, capacity planning, and operational efficiency within an AI-powered operations team. The individual will manage agent staffing, project prioritization, and resource allocation to optimize performance and cost-effectiveness, leveraging AI tools to improve workflows. The role involves analyzing data, providing insights to leadership, and ensuring the team focuses on high-value initiatives. | — | 5 |
| Lead - Advanced Analytics, Gurgaon Lead Advanced Analyst role focused on driving AI-first analytics practices within the Community Support business at Airbnb. The role involves serving as a strategic thought partner, building scalable analytical solutions, and championing the integration of LLM-based tools, AutoML, and advanced AI capabilities into analytical workflows. Responsibilities include leading product analytics, A/B testing, developing metric frameworks, and collaborating with Data Science/Engineering on ML model development for policy enforcement, while also ensuring data quality and regulatory compliance. | Agent | 5 |
| Strategic Business Operations Manager - Community Support This role is for a Strategic Business Operations Manager at Airbnb, focusing on the global goodwill strategy within the Community Support organization. The manager will design, lead, and optimize the goodwill program, manage its budget, monitor operational effectiveness, and mitigate risks. The role requires strong strategic thinking, financial stewardship, stakeholder management, and analytical skills. Proficiency in leveraging AI tools for operational efficiency and decision-making is mentioned as a plus, along with experience in SQL, Python, and Tableau. | — | 5 |
| Process Risk and Compliance Operations Manager This role is responsible for the strategic design and evolution of risk frameworks, risk registry, and executive risk narratives for Community Support, with a strong focus on AI risk governance. The role will partner closely with the Insider Threat program, manage systemic root cause resolution, and serve as a risk steward for AI systems touching Community Support. It requires asking the right questions of technical teams, interpreting outputs, and ensuring AI-driven processes are governed with rigor. This is a product-focused role within enterprise AI, focused on the governance and risk aspects of AI systems in a regulated environment. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Staff Data Engineer - Data Stewardship Senior Staff Data Engineer focused on Data Stewardship and Governance at Airbnb. The role involves defining the multi-year vision for Data Governance and Data Quality, acting as a primary consultant for executive leadership, and architecting data ecosystems that anticipate future real-time and AI-driven requirements. Key responsibilities include leading design of overarching data architectures, defining best practices for data quality, leading cross-functional task forces to navigate regulatory landscapes (GDPR, AI Act), and mentoring engineers. Requires 12+ years of experience, expertise in Java/Scala/Spark, SQL, and experience influencing strategy through data integrity. | — | 5 |
| Compensation Partner This role is a Technical Compensation Partner for Airbnb's Technology organization, focusing on Engineering, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, and Data Science. The individual will serve as a strategic advisor to tech leaders, own compensation cycle execution, conduct market research on AI/ML talent, and design/build compensation models and AI-powered tools. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in technical compensation, and familiarity with the AI/ML talent market. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Engineer, People Analytics Senior Data Engineer role focused on building data pipelines and foundations to support AI-driven tools, particularly LLM-powered applications, within the People Analytics team at Airbnb. Responsibilities include data infrastructure, analytics engineering, and data product development, with a strong emphasis on handling sensitive employee data and ensuring data governance for AI initiatives. | Data | 5 |
| 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 |