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 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 |