Airbnb

Senior Data Scientist, Platform – Integrity

Airbnb

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $177,000 - $208,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Advance Airbnb’s content integrity capabilities by building Natural Language Processing (NLP) and LLM-based models that understand intent, policy compliance, quality and risk across listings, profiles, and user communications
  • Develop high-performing models for detecting problematic or misleading content, including text classification, semantic similarity, information extraction and generative model-based reasoning for policy interpretation and enforcement
  • Design and optimize human-in-the-loop Machine Learning (ML) systems for content review, labeling, escalation and continuous model improvement
  • Build systems to detect emerging content risks and abuse patterns across regions, cohorts and surfaces using statistical, ML and representation-learning approaches
  • Design intelligent sampling and evaluation strategies to measure rare events, policy recall, false positives/negatives and model blind spots in large-scale content systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of industry experience in a quantitative analysis role with a Master’s degree in a quantitative field (computer science, statistics etc.), or 2+ years of experience with a Ph.D.
  • State-of-the-art knowledge of AI/ML models
  • Hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying NLP and LLM-based solutions, including text classification, information extraction, semantic understanding or generative applications.
  • Working knowledge of causal inference
  • Skilled in statistical programming (Python or R) and database usage (SQL)
  • Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels
  • Ability to translate complex findings and results into compelling narratives that drive impact
  • Excellent project management, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Trust & Safety experience is a plus
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Natural Language ProcessingLarge Language Modelstext classificationsemantic similarityinformation extractiongenerative model-based reasoningMachine Learningstatistical programmingPythonR
Soft Skills
communicationproject managementcollaborationability to translate complex findingsclear communicationeffective communication