Airbnb Senior Data Scientist – Algorithms Guest Merchandising 

United States 

91960487

The Difference You Will Make:

As a senior Machine Learning Scientist, you will be the hands-on data scientist for prototyping AI and ML recommendations for displaying relevant information to guide our users in their decision-making over the guest journey. The data artifacts you will create, own, and showcase will help to drive a more customized user experience based on unlocking new and deeper understanding of our users and listings:

• Work closely with partners on a holistic decision-making engine for displaying the end-to-end user experience
• Build data products and models to produce contextual insights relevant at various stages of the user product journey
• Collaborate with a strong team of engineers to improve barriers and frictions in our online user experience

A Typical Day:

• Focus time – To build machine learning prototypes, develop data mastery to uncover learnings, and formulate structured frameworks to classify our users’ online product experience and interpret their behaviors
• Autonomy – To apply and investigate state-of-the-art innovations to uplevel Airbnb status-quo approaches to technical problems
• Regularly present work internally at monthly meetings to technical, engineering and product stakeholders to iterate and generate excitement on roadmap progress

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (e.g. ML scientist, tech lead, junior faculty) and a Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field
• Hands-on ‘builder’ experience with recommendations and search problems. Also a plus, proficiency with LLMs and/or related AI, NLP, UGC/content understanding topics including deep learning, information retrieval, or knowledge extraction. For example, BERT, LaMDA, GPT-2/3/4, LLaMA
• Strong fluency in Python or R for hands-on IC work and advanced data analysis in SQL at scale
• Comfort to collaborate with software engineers to understand complex systems and abstracted logs
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels
• Publications or presentations in recognized journals/conferences, demonstrating an eagerness to learn and share. Proven mix of strong intellectual curiosity with high level of pragmatism and engagement with the technical community.
• Ability to take a product-oriented mindset in using conceptual and innovative thinking to develop and apply solutions taking into consideration the user experience