Airbnb

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

Airbnb · San Francisco, CA

Posted about a month ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
33 days
Airbnb's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Airbnb's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Airbnb
high
87 stale, 16 reposted of 173 open
Hiring momentum
323 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Airbnb's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Airbnb.

About this role

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust Frontier AI team at Airbnb, you will develop and implement machine learning solutions to enhance user trust and safety across the platform. Your responsibilities include framing ambiguous problems, prototyping solutions, building and productionizing ML pipelines, and evaluating the impact of your work on business metrics. You will collaborate with various teams to create AI agents that automate trust decisions and improve abuse detection mechanisms.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
3/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 5-10 years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning
  • 1-2+ years of hands-on experience with LLMs and GenAI technologies
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Solid understanding of Machine Learning best practices
  • Experience with ML frameworks and tooling such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
  • Experience with data engineering and building end-to-end ML pipelines

Nice to have

  • Experience with multimodal models (vision, document, or speech)
  • Exposure to the Trust and Risk domain (e.g., fraud detection, anomaly detection, identity, account integrity)

What you get

  • Base pay range of $200,000 — $235,000 USD
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

Worth weighing

  • Remote eligible but must live in a state where Airbnb has a registered entity
  • Pay range may be modified in the future

Summarised from Airbnb's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Airbnb on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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