# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust at Airbnb

- Company: Airbnb
- What the company does: Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.airbnb.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/8232153?gh_jid=8232153
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbnb-senior-machine-learning-engineer-trust/

## About the role

You'll work side-by-side with talented product managers, data scientists, software engineers, fraud intelligence, and operations teams. Together, you'll design and build ML solutions that have direct, meaningful impact on user trust, business success, and the global Airbnb community.

## What they're looking for

- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and operations teams to identify opportunities, scope ML solutions, and refine requirements for new or improved Trust models
- Design, build, and productionize end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines, including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment — for both batch and real-time use cases
- Investigate emerging fraud patterns and threat signals with your teammates, and develop ML-based detections and tools that enable faster, more accurate responses
- Write, review, and ship clean, testable code — whether training a new model, improving an existing pipeline, or optimizing a feature for scalability and reliability
- Work with large-scale structured and unstructured data to continuously improve ML models for Airbnb product, business, and operational use cases
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and cross-team collaborations to contribute to a high-quality ML engineering culture

Tags: Software Engineering