# Senior Machine Learning Engineer

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $196k – $227k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Sft, RLHF, Grpo, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Llm Evaluation, Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Orchestration, LangGraph, Autogen, React, MLOps, ML Infrastructure, Model Serving
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> Build and deploy cutting-edge Agentic AI and LLM systems to transform Airbnb's customer service experience, including Chat and Voice AI assistants. Requires 6+ years experience with production ML/AI systems at scale.

## 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 or Master's degree w/ 6+ 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

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