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.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sr Manager, Advanced Analytics, FSI Lead a team of analysts to measure, govern, and optimize Fraud & Safety operations globally. Own operational performance, build systems for data-driven decisions, and empower stakeholders with insights. Focus on enabling fast, data-driven operational decisions at global scale. | — | 5 |
| Staff Business Solutions Engineer, Collaboration Products This role focuses on leading business enablement by integrating AI-driven solutions into Airbnb's collaboration products for employees. The Staff Business Solutions Engineer will act as a liaison between business and technology, gathering requirements, developing roadmaps, and translating business needs into technical solutions, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI to enhance productivity and creativity. The role involves understanding AI technologies and their application, driving process improvements, and collaborating with engineering teams on AI-enhanced features. | — | 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 |
| iOS Software Engineer, Airbnb - New Grad Software Engineer (New Grad) role focused on building and enhancing customer-facing products for Airbnb's Quality Reputation team. The role involves developing iOS features, fixing bugs, and contributing to AI-powered features using foundational knowledge of ML concepts and AI tools. Emphasis on collaboration, best practices, and continuous learning. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager Global Capacity and Operational Planning (Community Support) Senior Manager for Demand Planning on the Community Support (CS) team, responsible for leading demand forecasting and long-term planning strategy across multi-channel contact center operations for Global Operations. This role ensures the organization has the right resources, at the right time, with the right skills to meet service level objectives while optimizing cost and productivity. The role combines planning, advanced analytics, business partnership, and people leadership to drive scalable, data-driven workforce decisions in a complex, fast-changing environment. | — | 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 |
| Product Manager, Guest Discovery and Homepage Product Manager for Airbnb's Guest Discovery and Homepage, responsible for transforming the guest experience by leveraging AI technologies and intuitive UI formats to make it effortless for guests to discover relevant offerings. The role involves leading product vision, strategy, and roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and defining measurable objectives. | — | 5 |
| Staff, Advanced Analytics, Global Markets and Policy This role focuses on developing and leading initiatives for international growth strategy at Airbnb, involving measurement, building tools, and deriving insights from diverse data sources. The candidate will leverage AI technologies to enhance their work and collaborate with various teams to drive business decisions. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with experimentation, and the ability to translate complex findings into actionable insights for senior leadership. | — | 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 |
| Engineering Manager, UI Tooling Engineering Manager for Airbnb's UI Tooling team, focusing on design systems, accessibility, motion, and tooling that connects design and product development. The role involves managing engineers, defining roadmaps, and driving AI-powered workflows for designers and engineers, with a focus on Figma integrations and AI agents. | Agent | 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 |
| Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics at Airbnb, leading a team focused on data-driven insights and marketplace dynamics. Requires expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, experimentation, and familiarity with LLMs, with a strong emphasis on people management and stakeholder collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Sourcing, Manager - Community Support (Contact Center) This role is for a Strategic Sourcing Manager focused on Community Support (Contact Center) services. The role involves leading end-to-end sourcing, supplier relationship management, and developing category plans to optimize costs, drive innovation, and mitigate risks. A key aspect is leveraging AI tools and automation to streamline procurement processes and enhance operational efficiency. While the role utilizes 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 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Causal Inference Senior Data Scientist role at Airbnb focusing on Causal Inference. The role involves developing models, measurement frameworks, and data products to improve the Airbnb marketplace and product. Responsibilities include applying causal inference methods, building data products, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong coding skills in SQL and Python/R, and experience with experimentation and machine learning. | — | 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 |
| Staff, Advanced Analytics, Incentives This role focuses on advanced data analysis, metric definition, experimentation, and synthesis to drive strategic decisions related to incentives for supply growth in a marketplace setting. The individual will analyze data to understand the impact of incentives on key metrics, define new metrics, build dashboards, and conduct A/B tests. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential. | — | 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, Communication & Connectivity Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining large-scale, distributed data systems (batch and real-time) that power machine learning models and unlock new product features for Airbnb's Communication & Connectivity organization. The role involves architecting ML infrastructure, optimizing for performance, and collaborating with various engineering teams, including those applying GenAI and LLMs. | ServeData | 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 |
| Senior Creative Director, Social & Content Senior Creative Director, Social & Content at Airbnb, responsible for overseeing social workstreams, shaping a content ecosystem, and developing social-native content systems for global audiences. This role requires a visionary creative leader with expertise in video-first content, platform-native execution, and collaboration across marketing, product, and external creators. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Revenue Operations Senior Manager, Revenue Operations at Airbnb, responsible for financial processes, procedures, and controls for platform operations. Ensures financial reporting and audit readiness, manages high-value accounts, and leads a team. Embraces an AI-enabled mindset, leveraging technology and automation while maintaining human oversight for AI-assisted workflows. Partners with finance, tech, and AI teams to develop accounting-specific AI use cases and governance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, Payments Senior Technical Program Manager for Airbnb's Payments Engineering team, responsible for leading complex, cross-functional programs to deliver strategic business priorities in payments. Requires strong technical background, program management skills, and ability to influence stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Recruiting Systems and Data Manager for Airbnb's Recruiting Systems and Data team, responsible for owning the recruiting tech stack strategy, leading analysts, and driving data and systems decisions. The role involves defining the roadmap for the recruiting technology ecosystem, managing system implementations, designing data architecture, establishing data governance, and building advanced analytics for recruiting insights. Requires expertise in recruiting systems, HR technology, or people analytics, with team management experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Resourcing Lead, Creative Operations Airbnb is seeking a Senior Resourcing Lead for their Marketing & Creative Operations team. This role will manage all aspects of resource management for their internal creative studio, including sourcing, onboarding, staffing, budget, and systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in creative services, resource management, and operational leadership. | — | 0 |
| Manager Business Process Improvement Manager for Business Process Improvement within Airbnb's Community Support team, focusing on making operations more efficient, effective, and adaptable through continuous improvement and proactive process engineering. The role involves leading a team of analysts, designing systems for AI-readiness and automation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to drive systemic improvements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Workforce Planning Senior Manager, Workforce Planning for Airbnb's Community Support team, focusing on optimizing staffing levels, enhancing customer interaction quality, driving service level performance, and balancing cost control with SLAs. Responsibilities include workforce scheduling, capacity planning, service level management, performance analysis, and team leadership. | — | 0 |
| Lead Program Manager, Organic Social Lead Program Manager for Airbnb's Organic Social team, responsible for the operational strategy and execution of always-on content series. This role focuses on defining and refining workflows, governance, and systems to enable a world-class creative team to produce consistent, high-quality content globally. The position requires strong strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and experience in content operations and program management within a large digital brand. | — | 0 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and operating a unified data store and access gateway for Airbnb. This involves developing a scalable, reliable, and secure storage infrastructure, including data schematization and compliance solutions. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Staff Frontend Engineer, Client Data & Networking Platform This role is for a Staff Frontend Engineer on Airbnb's Client Data & Networking Platform team. The team owns the data layer of Airbnb's client tech stack, including GraphQL runtime, client networking infrastructure, and developer tooling. The engineer will empower other Airbnb engineers to build fast, reliable, and data-rich features at scale by improving infrastructure and tooling. Responsibilities include partnering with product teams, developing cross-platform solutions, collaborating with infrastructure teams, and participating in all phases of software development. Required experience includes 10+ years, TypeScript, GraphQL/REST APIs, platform/infrastructure/developer productivity teams, strong engineering fundamentals (networking, performance, caching, storage, async), mentoring, and influencing engineering strategy. Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus. | — | 0 |