airbnb

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization (Query Intelligence)

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
5+ years
Posted
2026-07-14T19:54:51-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Data EngineeringDeep LearningJavaKafkaKubernetesMachine LearningNLPPyTorchPythonScalaTensorFlow

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Compensation & Benefits

$200,000

$235,000 USD

Responsibilities

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Relevance and Personalization team at Airbnb is responsible for search and recommendation across the entire Airbnb digital platform.

In this role you'll focus on query intelligence, the front door of search working on critical, impactful projects that turn what a guest types, taps, or says into a precise understanding of their intent, spanning autocomplete and smart compose, query tagging, query expansion, and intent modeling across Stays, Experiences, and Services.

Query understanding is where every search begins, and it directly shapes retrieval, ranking, and ultimately the perfect match between guests and hosts.

We build cutting-edge AI technologies across the end-to-end search ranking product stack w.r.t.