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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Product Manager, Search Product Manager for Airbnb's Search, focusing on next-generation AI capabilities like natural language and conversational search, intelligent ranking, and semantic search to improve guest experience and conversion. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Manager, Fraud Intelligence Manager for Fraud Intelligence at Airbnb, focusing on leading defenses against novel fraud and abuse, shaping proactive strategies, and building systemic defenses to reduce fraud loss and enhance platform trust. The role involves analyzing fraud signals, developing data-informed decisions, and collaborating cross-functionally to implement countermeasures. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety Operations Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety Operations at Airbnb. Leads a team of analysts to turn safety measurement into governed, self-serve decision systems for various departments. Focuses on building systems for fraud, safety, and quality, including scenario simulators and data democratization, to enable data-driven decisions. Requires experience in analytics, risk, or safety, team leadership, and ownership of large-scale data products in regulated environments. Familiarity with ML pipelines and understanding of incident impact analysis is needed. | Ship | 5 |