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
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 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.
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 20 new AI-related roles. That is a +54% change versus the prior 30 days (13 → 20).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Marketing technology Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team to build an agentic platform for content creation, transforming the platform into an AI-driven system that can turn a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign. | Agent | 7 |
| 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 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction for transforming the Marketing Technology Content Platform into an AI-driven system, enabling campaign creation in minutes. The role involves owning technical strategy across a CMS, no-code tools, rendering infrastructure, and an agentic layer, impacting millions of users daily. Requires deep expertise in backend systems, distributed architectures, and architecting/scaling AI-driven systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Platform Staff Backend Engineer for Airbnb's Ads Platform, focusing on building an AI-powered growth engine for paid marketing channels. The role involves architecting systems for autonomous campaign management, including creative generation, bidding, budget optimization, and audience management. It sits at the intersection of engineering, marketing, and AI, with a goal to increase marketing efficiency and campaign velocity through increasingly autonomous AI systems. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Technical Program Management (Search & AI Foundations) Senior Manager, Technical Program Management for Airbnb's Infrastructure team, focusing on AI Platforms including Search Relevance, Machine Learning Infrastructure (MLI), and Search Knowledge Infrastructure (SKI). The role involves partnering with engineering and product teams to build and enhance data-driven decision-making, manage AI initiatives, and drive execution across search ranking, recommendations, model infrastructure, and personalization. Experience with ML models, LLMs, and GenAI is required, with a focus on managing complex AI projects and teams. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Operations Engineer, BizTech Operations Engineer role focused on applying AI, specifically LLMs and agentic workflows, to automate and improve BizTech's operational health, including ticket resolution, incident response, and observability. The role involves managing tickets, incident response, building monitoring dashboards, and writing code for automation, with a strong emphasis on AI-driven insights and self-healing systems. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization (Query Intelligence) Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on Relevance and Personalization at Airbnb, specifically query intelligence. The role involves building and improving ML models for search and recommendation, with a focus on query understanding using NLP and LLMs. Responsibilities include developing models for autocomplete, intent classification, and natural language search experiences, productionizing ML pipelines, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Staff Platform Manager, Quality This role is for a Staff Platform Manager focused on quality tooling for support operations. The core responsibility is to own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of tools that evaluate and improve agent performance, including automated quality evaluation and understanding AI-powered products. The role involves deep partnership with engineering to drive model improvements and evaluation frameworks, ensuring high-quality, fit-for-purpose tools for QAs and other operational users. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on building and owning the technical strategy for ML modeling, serving, and API interfaces within the Host Pricing & Settings team at Airbnb. The role involves defining architecture, leading the buildout of a unified serving stack, and architecting backfill and evaluation infrastructure to improve ML development velocity. | ServeEval Gate | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Trust team at Airbnb, focusing on building and operating foundational systems for fraud, safety, and trust decisioning. The role emphasizes an AI-first approach, using LLM-powered agents for code generation and iteration, and requires strong backend and platform engineering skills with a focus on reliability and distributed systems. | Agent | 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 |
| Strategic Sourcing, Manager - Engineering & Infrastructure This role is for a Strategic Sourcing Manager focused on Engineering & Infrastructure at Airbnb. The primary function is to develop and execute sourcing strategies for technology capabilities, including enterprise SaaS, data platforms, and emerging AI technologies. A key aspect of the role involves integrating AI and automation into procurement workflows to enhance market intelligence, supplier analysis, and decision-making. While the role interacts with AI technologies and uses AI tools, it does not involve building or shipping AI models or agents. | — | 5 |
| (Contract) Senior Data Scientist, Platform Inference - MarTech DS Measurement This role focuses on building and maintaining marketing measurement systems, including Marketing Mix Models and geo-based causal inference. It also involves using AI agent workflows for rapid prototyping and productionalizing research prototypes into scalable systems. | AgentData | 5 |
| Staff Program Manager, Technical Education The Staff Program Manager, Technical Education will play a key role in executing various technical learning programs including our Engineering Education programs that currently focus on AI Education, and other engineering and data education programming. The ideal candidate is confident in their ability to develop scalable learning experiences that drive overall growth and development for our technical audience. | — | 5 |
| Senior Staff Operations Engineer, AIOps Senior Staff Operations Engineer role focused on scaling AI-enabled operations and delivering AIOps solutions within Airbnb's BizTech organization. The role involves leading projects, defining AIOps vision and roadmap, identifying and eliminating recurring issues through automation, and ensuring the quality and reliability of BizTech services. Requires deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, AI/automation, and SDLC, with proficiency in Python or Go. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response Senior Security Engineer focused on incident response and threat detection within Airbnb's Threat Detection and Response team. Responsibilities include investigating security incidents, performing digital forensics, hunting for threats, and building automation and detection models. Requires 5+ years of experience in security operations, proficiency in Python, and familiarity with security frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Passport Product Manager to lead a new, ambitious, cross-company initiative from early idea to global launch, impacting discovery, booking, payments, trust, support, and brand. The role involves defining vision and roadmap, making prioritization calls, partnering with various teams, and launching in stages. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Tax Engineering Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and improving Airbnb's global tax engineering platform, ensuring accuracy, latency, and reliability of host-facing tax systems. The role involves leading engineers, shaping technical roadmaps, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on architectural decisions and platform development. | — | 0 |
| Lead Counsel, Community Trust Lead Counsel, Community Trust at Airbnb to provide legal support and counseling on fraud and safety defenses and enforcement, community support, law enforcement operations, global crisis management and disaster response. This role requires 12-15 years of experience in litigation, risk mitigation, fraud and safety, law enforcement operations, and global policy application. Experience with AI/ML models is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Discounts & Promotions Product Manager for Discounts & Promotions at Airbnb, focusing on developing and launching pricing tools and promotional campaigns for hosts. This role involves owning the product roadmap, designing promotional mechanics, architecting a programmatic promotions engine, and leveraging data science and analytics to drive host earnings and marketplace competitiveness. The position requires extensive product management experience, particularly in marketplaces with pricing and promotions, and a strong ability to use data to support product strategy. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Media Foundation Senior Engineering Manager for Airbnb's Media Foundation team, responsible for building and operating the core platforms and infrastructure for photo and video capture, upload, processing, storage, and delivery. The role involves leading a team of engineers, setting technical strategy, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of media infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Programs & Business Operations Lead This role focuses on driving strategic business growth for Airbnb's Experiences, owning demand strategy and leading cross-functional programs. It requires strong analytical skills, operational excellence, and the ability to translate data into actionable plans to enhance business performance and scale globally. The role involves collaborating with various teams, managing stakeholders, and innovating to achieve business outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Program Manager, Roadmap Planning & Program Management Senior Product Program Manager at Airbnb responsible for roadmap planning and program management, driving the delivery of priority products and shaping the company's future through cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Product Program Manager, Roadmap Planning & Program Management Product Program Manager at Airbnb responsible for roadmap planning and program management, driving the delivery of priority products and providing executive visibility. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with design, product marketing, engineering, and other teams to ensure successful roadmap delivery and shape the company's future. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability Staff Backend Engineer role focused on Airbnb's Host Pricing & Availability platform. Responsibilities include driving technical strategy, architecting scalable solutions, leading development of pricing and availability products, and mentoring engineers. Requires extensive experience in backend systems, service-oriented architectures, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Wallet Product Manager for Airbnb's new financial hub for guests, called Wallet. This role will define and build the Wallet experience, transforming how guests manage their financial relationship with Airbnb by integrating payment methods, stored value, credits, and spending features. The goal is to create a trusted, engaging place that guests return to between trips, not just at checkout. The role requires deep experience in consumer financial products, understanding the payments ecosystem, and driving checkout/conversion improvements. Success means guests proactively managing their finances with Airbnb, increased utilization of credits and stored value, and Wallet becoming a platform for future financial products. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Tickets Product Manager for Airbnb's Tickets business, focusing on defining the category, shaping the product, building supply, and go-to-market strategy. Responsibilities include developing product vision, roadmap, messaging, and ensuring the quality of ticket listings. Requires extensive experience in product management/marketing, ticketing marketplaces, and scaling consumer products. | — | 0 |