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Data Scientist

Data Scientist building and deploying LLM/ML models for personalized, AI-powered Community Support experiences at Airbnb. Requires 2+ years experience, Master's/PhD, strong Python/R/SQL, and state-of-the-art AI/ML knowledge.

151k – 175k/yr
Remote2+ YOEData Science

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-impact business opportunities through data exploration and model prototyping; translate business problems into scientific formulations.
  • Analyze structured and unstructured data to uncover insights and craft actionable proposals.
  • Build and deploy production LLM/ML models that contribute to data-driven products.
  • Implement advanced techniques to automate the LLM evaluation process with high efficiency and quality.
  • Scale high-quality synthetic datasets curation across various CS domains for training and evaluating LLMs.
  • Build LLM/ML models to understand customer issues based on diverse datasets, identify failure modes, and find opportunities for improvement.
  • Build personalization models to offer differentiated experiences and maximize business impact.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, and Analytics teams.
  • Communicate learnings to leaders and stakeholders to drive data-driven decisions.
  • Scale and evolve data science capabilities within the domain.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience (e.g. data/ML scientist, tech lead, junior faculty) and a Master’s degree or PhD in relevant fields.
  • State-of-the-art knowledge of AI/ML models.
  • Strong fluency in Python/R and SQL.
  • Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels.
  • Ability to translate complex findings into compelling narratives that drive impact.
  • Excellent project management, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Product-oriented mindset with conceptual and innovative thinking applied to user experience.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Observation causal inference skills.

Skills

LLMsMachine LearningPythonRSQLCausal InferenceData Analysismodel prototypingsynthetic data generationpersonalization models

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