Senior Data Scientist - Search & Personalization

The Community You Will Join:

We are looking for talented Data Scientists to join our Search & Personalization Data Science team. Search is pivotal to the Airbnb marketplace, the team works on building a world class search experience for our guests, from the homepage, to search and listing pages, and checkout. Our team is responsible for building the data products, inference frameworks, and intelligence to create a personalized search experience, balancing both the short and long-term health of the marketplace. 

The Difference You Will Make:

You will work centrally, with other data scientists, partnering cross-functionally across the guest search experience, host, and marketplace teams.

• Develop and utilize models of guest conversion drivers to inform supply management strategies.
• Operationalizing a system to detect suboptimal user paths in the product leveraging user behavioral logs.
• Developing a framework of conversion drivers, connecting input metrics to outputs, to inform strategies, decision-making, and track progress on team goals. 
• Providing technical mentorship to other data scientists, holding a high bar for data products architecture. 

A Typical Day: 

• Focus time – To build machine learning models, develop inference frameworks, and build prototypes and other data products to scale your work.
• Autonomy – To apply and investigate state-of-the-art innovations to uplevel Airbnb status-quo approaches to technical problems
• Regularly present work internally to engineering, product, and business strategy stakeholders to iterate and generate excitement on roadmap progress
• Publish externally and engage with the scientific community to advance Airbnb’s standing

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience with inference and machine learning techniques
• Experience in high-dimensional data modeling
• Experience with causal inference and structural models
• Experience working on a consumer search product or recommender systems
• Proven ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments
• Expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (Python or R)
• Strong skills in SQL and distributed system optimization (e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Presto)
• Experience with an ETL framework like Airflow
• Experience with prototyping and writing production code
• Passion for scaling data science work

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.