Airbnb Staff Data Scientist Locations 

United States 

365266582

The Difference You Will Make:

You will analyze and derive new location data products and features. This may range in projects from recommending places-of-interest based on traveler preferences, to generating neighborhood vibes and descriptions using LLMs, to modeling and discovering location affinities to name a few examples.

A Typical Day:

• Build a deep understanding of the locations space through technical analysis. Translate insights into impactful user-facing location data products or assets.
• Drive exploration, development, and prototyping of innovative location data products in close partnership with product and engineering stakeholders.
• Explore both internal and external data sources to derive impactful location assets.
• Quantify the impact of launched data products through experimentation and/or causal inference techniques.
• Research new approaches to measure items like location relevance and map behaviors to understand how they tie to user satisfaction and business outcomes.

Your Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in Data Science, Statistics, Geographic Information Systems, Econometrics, or a related field.
• 9+ years of relevant industry experience (6+ with a PhD).
• Prior experience working with geospatial data strongly preferred.
• Hands on experience using LLMs for information retrieval or knowledge extraction preferred. Related NLP, CV, UGC/content understanding experience a plus.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate and influence at various altitudes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Prior experience working with XFN partners like product, engineering, and design to enable data-driven product development.
• Familiarity prototyping, building, and scaling derived data assets.

Offices: United States