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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| (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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff System Engineer, BizTech Staff System Engineer for Airbnb's BizTech CRM Engineering team, focusing on building and scaling digital engagement platforms (chat, messaging, voice) to foster relationships between Airbnb and its community. This role involves technical strategy, architecture, and hands-on development for customer-facing systems. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Cloud & Data Security Lead a team of security engineers focused on securing Airbnb's cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and access controls. Set technical direction, manage the team's roadmap, and partner across the company to improve security practices. This role involves people management, technical guidance on cloud security, data security, and identity systems, and driving operational excellence. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Payments Engineering Manager for Airbnb's Payments team, responsible for leading teams building and operating critical payments systems. Focuses on scale, reliability, compliance, and product innovation within a regulated financial environment. | — | 0 |
| Staff Data Scientist - Long Term Impact This role focuses on developing and improving frameworks for estimating the long-term causal impact of product changes at Airbnb. It involves applying advanced causal inference methods, including experimental, econometric regression, and quasi-experimental techniques, to measure platform/product impacts and optimize for long-term business outcomes. The role requires strong programming skills and experience in quantitative fields. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Networking Software Engineer for Airbnb's Cloud Networking team, focusing on building and operating network infrastructure including traffic proxy, load balancers, service mesh, and security systems. The role involves working with cloud-native technologies and open-source communities to ensure reliability, scalability, and high availability for global services. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Build Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Infrastructure team, focusing on CI+Build systems. The role involves architecting improvements to Bazel, remote build/cache infrastructure, and driving technical direction for build systems to accelerate engineering productivity and AI agent operations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Staff Engineer, Payments Compliance Senior Staff Engineer, Payments Compliance at Airbnb. Owns technical vision and architectural direction for the Compliance engineering landscape, focusing on Policy Enforcement, Identity, Screening, Auditing, and Compliance Experience. Ensures compliance systems are scalable and aligned with global regulatory requirements like AML, KYC, and sanctions screening. Partners with cross-organizational teams and stakeholders to drive high-stakes design tradeoffs. | — | 0 |