Senior Data Scientist, Platform (Integrity)

2 hours, 44 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Airbnb

Airbnb

Airbnb is the world's largest community-driven hospitality company, offering homes and experiences in 191 countries. It is an online marketplace connecting people to unique accommodations and experiences globally.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
5K-10K
Founded 2008

Description

  • Build NLP and LLM-based models to understand intent, policy compliance, quality, and risk across listings, profiles, and messages.
  • Develop models for detecting problematic or misleading content using text classification, semantic similarity, information extraction, and generative reasoning.
  • Design and optimize human-in-the-loop ML systems for content review, labeling, escalation, and model improvement.
  • Build systems to detect emerging content risks and abuse patterns across regions, cohorts, and surfaces.
  • Design sampling and evaluation strategies to measure rare events, policy recall, false positives, false negatives, and model blind spots.
  • Build and deploy production AI/ML systems, including feature engineering, model development, evaluation, thresholding, error analysis, and lifecycle management.
  • Partner with inference data scientists to run quantitative analyses and interpret results using causal inference.
  • Develop frameworks to evaluate tradeoffs between enforcement accuracy, user experience, operational cost, and coverage.
  • Communicate findings through research reports, data visualizations, and clear storytelling with cross-functional partners.
  • Help define the long-term vision for AI-driven content understanding within Airbnb’s Trust ecosystem.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of industry experience in a quantitative analysis role with a Master’s degree in a quantitative field, or 2+ years of experience with a Ph.D.
  • Strong knowledge of AI/ML models.
  • Hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying NLP and LLM-based solutions.
  • Experience with text classification, information extraction, semantic understanding, or generative applications.
  • Working knowledge of causal inference.
  • Proficiency in Python or R and SQL.
  • Ability to communicate clearly to audiences with varying technical levels.
  • Ability to translate complex findings into compelling narratives.
  • Excellent project management, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Trust & Safety experience is a plus.
  • US-remote eligibility with residence in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Benefits

  • Base pay range of $177,000 to $208,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for bonus.
  • Eligibility for equity.
  • Eligibility for benefits.
  • Employee Travel Credits.
  • Remote-eligible role.
  • Occasional work from an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites may be required.

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