About the Position

Airbnb has more than 7 million listings in over 100,000 cities, comprising the most diverse assortment of rooms, homes, hotels, and unique places to stay in the world. In order to grow our business by helping more guests find the right places to stay, we need to comprehensively understand and categorize our supply.

What is the Home Understanding team at Airbnb?

Our team’s vision is to create a universal catalog of attributes for every place to stay in the world. This catalog of attributes and category tags powers a personalized search journey and provides easy to parse, complete, and contextual information about places to stay on Airbnb. In order to populate this catalog scalably, we are building a platform for structured data collection, unification and inference.

We are a recently chartered and rapidly growing team with ambitious goals. We seek a Machine Learning Software Engineer to join us in our SF office to lead a variety of initiatives such as:

Building and productionizing machine learning models to categorize our supply

Leveraging state of the art Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) technologies to extract relevant information from text and photos to power user experiences

Building probabilistic record linkage models

Designing optimization processes to improve feedback collection from our users

Defining the taxonomy for our supply

Creatively leveraging unconventional data sets to further enhance our supply understanding

You will be working with a diverse and talented team to solve hard problems and create outsized impact on the business. If you are excited by this problem space, we want to hear from you.

Some examples of the traits that we value are:

6+ years relevant experience in industry

Experience developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact

Proven ability to tailor your solutions to business problems in a cross functional team

Strong programming and data engineering skills.

Experience in NLP and CV

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Steadfast focus on creating impactful change

Benefits