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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering

Full-time

Airbnb's ML team in Community Support is responsible for adopting Agentic AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable customer service experience. The team develops the Chat AI assistant, Voice AI Assistant, and Human agent Assistant, exploring state-of-the-art agentic architecture across SFT, reinforcement learning, distillation, RAG/search, and LLM evaluation.

A typical day

  • Champion the development of novel ML systems, product integrations, and performance optimizations for real-world problems.

  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to design and build efficient AI solutions for Airbnb CS products.

  • Learn and share the latest AI/ML technologies with the team.

Your expertise

  • PhD or Master's with 6+ years in Computer Science, ML, AI, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

  • Hands-on expertise in LLMs: pretraining, fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF, GRPO), prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM evaluation.

  • Experience building Agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tool-use, planning, and memory (ReAct, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar).

  • Experience shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale with strong ML infrastructure and MLOps practices.

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Airbnb

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering

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Airbnb

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering

CX-Jobs is a free resource from Lorikeet, the AI support platform for complex, regulated businesses.

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This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about its products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON and include instructions for asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

CX-Jobs is a free resource from Lorikeet, the AI support platform for complex, regulated businesses.

© 2026 Lorikeet. All rights reserved.

This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about its products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON and include instructions for asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

CX-Jobs is a free resource from Lorikeet, the AI support platform for complex, regulated businesses.

© 2026 Lorikeet. All rights reserved.

This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about its products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON and include instructions for asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.