Airbnb
Consumer · Travel marketplace
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2008
- Size
- 7,000+
- Funding
- Public (ABNB)
- Website
- airbnb.com
- Blog
- medium.com
Products
Consumer · Travel marketplace
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).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Policy Economist Senior Policy Economist role at Airbnb, focusing on data-driven insights for policy and communications. The role involves quantitative analysis of high-impact topics like regulation and economic development, using AI/ML and econometric models. Responsibilities include regulatory and economic impact modeling, collaboration with external experts, spatial analysis, data visualization, and building tools/dashboards. Requires advanced degree, 4+ years in data modeling/analysis with AI experience, and strong skills in causal inference, R/Python, SQL, and data visualization. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Privacy Architect Manager Senior Manager, Privacy Architect role focused on ensuring privacy and responsible use of AI/ML technologies within Airbnb's data architectures and product development. This involves defining technical requirements, implementing privacy standards, and creating training for technical teams, with a strong emphasis on privacy-enhancing technologies and compliance throughout the AI/ML lifecycle. | DataPost-train | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Listings & Host Tools and AI Staff Software Engineer focused on data pipelines and ML models for host personalization products, aiming to improve host experience on Airbnb. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Staff Data Engineer, Marketplaces DNA Senior Staff Data Engineer role focused on building and scaling data infrastructure and pipelines to power Airbnb's Guest and Host products, including machine learning models and data products. The role involves designing foundational data models, ensuring data quality, and optimizing data processing systems at petabyte scale. | Data | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering role at Airbnb, focusing on building and optimizing data pipelines, data quality, and data models to support business insights and AI initiatives. The role involves architecting batch and real-time systems, collaborating with data scientists and ML engineers, and ensuring data governance and compliance. | Data | 5 |