# Machine Learning Engineer

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Pretraining, Fine-Tuning, Sft, RLHF, Grpo, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Llm Evaluation, Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Orchestration, Tool-Use, Planning, Memory
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Build and deploy cutting-edge Agentic AI and LLM systems to transform Airbnb's customer service experience. Requires PhD or equivalent experience and production ML/AI deployment expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Champion the development of novel ML systems, product integrations, and performance optimizations to solve real-world problems
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to design and build efficient AI solutions for Airbnb CS products
- Learn and share the latest AI/ML technologies with the team

## Requirements
- PhD w/ 3+ YOE in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field — or equivalent industry experience
- Hands-on expertise in LLM, including pretraining, fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF, GRPO), prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and LLM evaluation frameworks
- Experience building Agentic AI systems — including multi-agent orchestration, tool-use, planning, memory, and autonomous reasoning pipelines (e.g., ReAct, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)
- Experience of shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale, with deep understanding of ML infrastructure, model serving, and MLOps best practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, and Design organizations

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with SFT, Reinforcement learning, Distillation, RAG/Search, LLM evaluation and testing automation, feedback-based learning and guardrail

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base pay range: $170,000—$180,000 USD
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits

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