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, 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 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering The role focuses on leveraging Generative AI and LLMs to transform Airbnb's customer service. This involves building and enhancing AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning, RAG/Search, evaluation, feedback learning, and guardrails. The position emphasizes developing personalized, easy-to-use, and proactive customer service experiences, with many initiatives in early conceptual stages. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| 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 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering The Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering role at Airbnb focuses on leveraging Generative AI technologies to enhance customer service. The team develops and optimizes AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning, RAG/Search, evaluation, and guardrails. The role involves building and deploying AI solutions for customer service, with opportunities to shape ideas from inception to production. Experience with LLM-driven chatbots and Agentic AI products is a plus. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering The role focuses on driving Customer Support x Artificial Intelligence (CSxAI) initiatives by adopting Generative AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable, and exceptional service experience. This involves developing and enhancing AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning, optimization, RAG/Search, LLM evaluation, testing automation, feedback-based learning, and guardrails for various applications within Airbnb. The role also involves building and leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to transform customer service and shape ideas from inception to production. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Software Engineer, Quality Platform Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered quality systems and AI-native quality workflows within Airbnb's engineering lifecycle. The role involves designing and implementing AI agents for testing, improving developer productivity through intelligent automation, and integrating AI capabilities into development environments. | Agent | 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 Business Solutions Engineer, BizTech(LegalTech) Senior Business Solutions Engineer role focused on deploying AI-powered tools and automation within Airbnb's Legal Technology team. The role involves building and implementing AI agents, RAG pipelines, and copilots, partnering with legal teams to identify opportunities, and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of these solutions. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Frontend Engineer, Quality Platform Senior Frontend Engineer responsible for building and maintaining the user interface for an agentic testing platform, making complex AI-driven testing workflows accessible and intuitive for other engineers. The role involves partnering with backend and applied AI engineers to expose platform capabilities. | Agent | 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 |
| Lead, Advanced Analytics, Hosting Services (Mexico) Lead, Advanced Analytics role at Airbnb focusing on Hosting Services in Mexico and Brazil. The role involves in-depth data analysis, statistical modeling, metric definition, impact assessment, experimentation, and synthesis of insights to inform prioritization for programs like Co-Host Network and Superhost Ambassadors. A key responsibility is to develop and support agentic workflows and AI-assisted tools to automate data analysis and reporting, and leverage LLMs. The role requires strong quantitative skills, experience in marketplace analytics, and stakeholder management. | Agent | 5 |
| Lead, Advanced Analytics, Hosting Services (Brazil) Lead Advanced Analytics role for Airbnb's Hosting Services in Brazil, focusing on analyzing supply programs, defining metrics, conducting experiments, and building dashboards. The role involves developing agentic workflows and AI-assisted tools for data analysis automation and requires familiarity with LLMs. | Agent | 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 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Service Tools Senior Software Engineer on the Service Tools team at Airbnb, responsible for improving the developer experience for backend engineers by working on build systems, CI/CD integrations, and editor experience. The role focuses on enhancing developer productivity, velocity, debuggability, and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Unified Data Store Staff Software Engineer for Airbnb's Unified Data Store (UDS) team in Brazil. This role focuses on designing, building, and operating a modern distributed infrastructure service that serves as Airbnb's global system-of-record for critical data like user profiles, listings, reservations, and financial transactions. The engineer will define technical strategy, architect for scale, drive engineering excellence, empower developers, and collaborate globally. Requires deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, technical leadership, and a platform mindset. Interest in emerging technologies like Applied AI for data management and observability is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Senior iOS Engineer, Global Markets Senior iOS Engineer focused on building and adapting Airbnb's guest and host experience for global markets, with a strong emphasis on locale-aware UI, market-specific features, and performance optimization. The role involves full-stack product development, technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Global Markets (Backend) Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to lead the technical strategy and drive innovative initiatives for Airbnb’s international guest experiences. This role will set a technical vision and drive execution of solutions that are highly available, secure, efficient, and designed to scale across many markets with the needs of the international business. The engineer will work across product, engineering, data scientists, designer and cross-functional partners to solve technical challenges and deliver high-quality products for Airbnb. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Community Support Engineering (Routing and Data Services) Engineering Manager for Airbnb's China Routing and Data Service team, focusing on building routing systems and data services to support community support operations. The role involves leading and mentoring a team, driving technical strategy, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable solutions. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer, Guest & Host - Notifications Backend engineer for Airbnb's global notification systems, focusing on building reliable and scalable solutions to enhance user engagement and drive business outcomes. Requires proficiency in JVM languages and experience with distributed systems. | — | 0 |