Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><strong>The Community You Will Join:</strong></p> <p>The Growth Platform team’s vision is to drive long term sustainable growth for the Airbnb community. Our mission is to build a best-in-class agentic system, and capabilities to support the growth of all Airbnb products, current and future. We achieve this by delivering highly personalized and relevant content and product experiences to the Airbnb community, both on and off of the Airbnb platform. The north star is full autonomy — where AI identifies opportunities, creates campaigns, personalizes experiences, and optimizes outcomes with minimal human intervention. We are progressing along a deliberate maturity curve: <strong>AI</strong> <strong>assisted → agentic → autonomous,</strong> with human-in-the-loop controls at every stage to ensure brand safety, quality, and compliance.</p> <p>The Growth Platform deeply integrates with the Airbnb product, understanding the customer journey and enabling differentiated customer engagement experiences to drive product growth.&nbsp; The platform also powers digital marketing channels including landing pages, email, push, SMS, and digital advertising, as well as the machine learning/AI and data platforms that feed into the management and optimization of these channels.</p> <p><strong>The Difference You Will Make:</strong></p> <ul> <li>As a machine learning engineer or scientist, your expertise will be pivotal in developing AI-powered solutions to shape the future of the Airbnb agentic growth platform with cutting-edge AI techniques. You will drive and guide the rest of the engineers to brainstorm, design and develop AI products and features from inception to production.&nbsp;</li> <li>We're seeking a <strong>Senior Staff Engineer</strong> who thrives at the intersection of <strong>technical</strong> <strong>depth</strong>, <strong>architectural</strong> <strong>thinking</strong>, and <strong>mentorship</strong>.</li> <li>You’ll collaborate with cross-functional leaders, build resilient systems that operate globally at scale, and help evolve the foundational building blocks behind AI-powered growth systems.</li> </ul> <p>Some example projects you will work on:</p> <ul> <li><str