Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Translation
Airbnb
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Translation
Job Description
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 Community You Will Join: As a Staff ML Engineer on the Translation AI team, you will play a critical role in accelerating the development and deployment of Translation AI at Airbnb. Machine Translation is critical to Airbnb, as we operate on a global scale and in the travel domain it is critical to ensure our guests and hosts can communicate across languages effectively. The Difference You Will Make: Translation improves the international guest booking experience, enables seamless communication between hosts and guests, and reduces barriers for global travelers. You’ll work directly with product teams to deliver core Translation capabilities to power their product use cases. You’ll work closely with the ML Infrastructure engineering team to ensure the efficiency of our machine Translation and co-creating technology that will benefit all AI use cases. Come build the future of AI at Airbnb.
A Typical Day
- Collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb—such as Customer Support, Guest & Host Tools, etc.—to deliver powerful machine translation capabilities for the entire company.
- Partner with teams to identify and prioritize translation-related challenges and opportunities.
- Design and implement scalable machine translation models to improve accuracy and reduce cost and latency for Airbnb’s global platform.
- Develop tooling, pipelines, and low level infrastructure (in collaboration with the ML Infrastructure team) that ensures we have a flexible foundation for machine translation spanning data preparation, evaluation, model selection / training, and inference.
- Work with cutting-edge open-source models including Llama, as well as commercial Translation offerings.
Your Expertise
- 9+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
- Prior experience with deploying or supporting production ML systems at large scale - including operational experience on observability, continuous evaluation and improvement, progressive rollouts.
- You may currently hold titles such as ML Engineer, Applied Scientist, or Data Scientist.
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
How We'll Take Care of You
$204,000—$255,000 USD
Locations
- United States,
Salary
204,000 - 255,000 USD / yearly
204,000 - 255,000 USD / yearly
Source: xAI estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java / C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills.intermediate
- Deep familiarity with machine learning development practices, especially for language modeling & NLP applications.intermediate
- Familiarity with OSS tools and technologies such as: PyTorch, LlamaFactory, HuggingFace, NVidia Triton / TRTLLM, Ray.intermediate
- Passionate about GenAI with a strong grasp of current trends in LLMs and related technologies. Deep understanding of GenAI models and their strengths/weaknesses, and ability to define the criteria for the right models/technologies to use to balance tradeoffs between quality, cost, performance, ease of operation and extensibility.intermediate
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.intermediate
Required Qualifications
- 9+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields. (experience)
- Prior experience with deploying or supporting production ML systems at large scale - including operational experience on observability, continuous evaluation and improvement, progressive rollouts. (experience)
- You may currently hold titles such as ML Engineer, Applied Scientist, or Data Scientist. (experience)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb—such as Customer Support, Guest & Host Tools, etc.—to deliver powerful machine translation capabilities for the entire company.
- Partner with teams to identify and prioritize translation-related challenges and opportunities.
- Design and implement scalable machine translation models to improve accuracy and reduce cost and latency for Airbnb’s global platform.
- Develop tooling, pipelines, and low level infrastructure (in collaboration with the ML Infrastructure team) that ensures we have a flexible foundation for machine translation spanning data preparation, evaluation, model selection / training, and inference.
- Work with cutting-edge open-source models including Llama, as well as commercial Translation offerings.
Benefits
- general: bonus
- general: equity
- general: benefits
- general: Employee Travel Credits
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Translation
Airbnb
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Translation
Job Description
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 Community You Will Join: As a Staff ML Engineer on the Translation AI team, you will play a critical role in accelerating the development and deployment of Translation AI at Airbnb. Machine Translation is critical to Airbnb, as we operate on a global scale and in the travel domain it is critical to ensure our guests and hosts can communicate across languages effectively. The Difference You Will Make: Translation improves the international guest booking experience, enables seamless communication between hosts and guests, and reduces barriers for global travelers. You’ll work directly with product teams to deliver core Translation capabilities to power their product use cases. You’ll work closely with the ML Infrastructure engineering team to ensure the efficiency of our machine Translation and co-creating technology that will benefit all AI use cases. Come build the future of AI at Airbnb.
A Typical Day
- Collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb—such as Customer Support, Guest & Host Tools, etc.—to deliver powerful machine translation capabilities for the entire company.
- Partner with teams to identify and prioritize translation-related challenges and opportunities.
- Design and implement scalable machine translation models to improve accuracy and reduce cost and latency for Airbnb’s global platform.
- Develop tooling, pipelines, and low level infrastructure (in collaboration with the ML Infrastructure team) that ensures we have a flexible foundation for machine translation spanning data preparation, evaluation, model selection / training, and inference.
- Work with cutting-edge open-source models including Llama, as well as commercial Translation offerings.
Your Expertise
- 9+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
- Prior experience with deploying or supporting production ML systems at large scale - including operational experience on observability, continuous evaluation and improvement, progressive rollouts.
- You may currently hold titles such as ML Engineer, Applied Scientist, or Data Scientist.
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
How We'll Take Care of You
$204,000—$255,000 USD
Locations
- United States,
Salary
204,000 - 255,000 USD / yearly
204,000 - 255,000 USD / yearly
Source: xAI estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java / C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills.intermediate
- Deep familiarity with machine learning development practices, especially for language modeling & NLP applications.intermediate
- Familiarity with OSS tools and technologies such as: PyTorch, LlamaFactory, HuggingFace, NVidia Triton / TRTLLM, Ray.intermediate
- Passionate about GenAI with a strong grasp of current trends in LLMs and related technologies. Deep understanding of GenAI models and their strengths/weaknesses, and ability to define the criteria for the right models/technologies to use to balance tradeoffs between quality, cost, performance, ease of operation and extensibility.intermediate
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.intermediate
Required Qualifications
- 9+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields. (experience)
- Prior experience with deploying or supporting production ML systems at large scale - including operational experience on observability, continuous evaluation and improvement, progressive rollouts. (experience)
- You may currently hold titles such as ML Engineer, Applied Scientist, or Data Scientist. (experience)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb—such as Customer Support, Guest & Host Tools, etc.—to deliver powerful machine translation capabilities for the entire company.
- Partner with teams to identify and prioritize translation-related challenges and opportunities.
- Design and implement scalable machine translation models to improve accuracy and reduce cost and latency for Airbnb’s global platform.
- Develop tooling, pipelines, and low level infrastructure (in collaboration with the ML Infrastructure team) that ensures we have a flexible foundation for machine translation spanning data preparation, evaluation, model selection / training, and inference.
- Work with cutting-edge open-source models including Llama, as well as commercial Translation offerings.
Benefits
- general: bonus
- general: equity
- general: benefits
- general: Employee Travel Credits
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