Staff Software Engineer, Communication Products at Airbnb

This role is for an expert engineer with at least nine years of experience who has a deep background in scaling machine learning systems within high-traffic products. You should be comfortable building the infrastructure that powers real-time features like smart replies and content moderation using large language models. **What makes it worth a look...** The compensation is high for a fully remote role, and they offer a unique employee travel credit to help you use the product yourself. It is a rare chance to lead the technical strategy for ML integration at a massive scale without needing to relocate to a tech hub. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have built and deployed large-scale model serving systems and feature pipelines. * Work comfortably with NLP, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures. * Can architect distributed, real-time systems that handle millions of messages with low latency. * Want to bridge the gap between offline ML research and live production impact.