AI Engineer, Community Support Engineering

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Providing world class customer service for our community of guests and hosts is a critical mission for Airbnb. This area has unprecedented scale and no other domain does the efficiency and reliability of customer service technology translate directly into a competitive advantage brand loyalty and the businesss bottom line.

The Integrated Knowledge Management team part of Airbnbs Community Support Engineering is foundational to creating the best customer service experience for our community of hosts and guests. The Integrated Knowledge Management team is responsible for building robust and scalable platforms that enable Airbnbs content and knowledge to be leveraged across internal and external users and to serve as the authoritative knowledge source for AI-powered applications and support surfaces.

The Difference You Will Make:

As an AI Engineer on the Integrated Knowledge Management team you will help build out our next-generation Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform and AI-powered support surfaces such as the Help Center. You will be deeply involved in building highly available and scalable services in close collaboration with engineering ML/AI product content data science and operations teams to meet the ever-evolving needs of Airbnbs Community Support Engineering group. Many problems exist in this domain including expanding our RAG systems to support new knowledge and solution sources building the capabilities required for Airbnbs expanding suite of AI-powered contextual in-product support applications and implementing ways to improve velocity around experimentation and evaluation.

A Typical Day:

• Collaborate with global cross-functional working groups (frontend/backend/ML engineers design product and operational teams) to design and build end-to-end AI powered product solutions to improve Airbnbs customer service experience.
• Use AI tooling to analyze data build hypotheses experiment learn and iterate to improve the Integrated Knowledge Management services.
• Optimize system availability performance and scalability while pushing enhancements for improved efficiency.
• Advocate and participate in efforts to advance Airbnbs engineering processes technical foundations and AI tooling.

Your Expertise:

• 3 years of industry experience directly contributing to the design implementation evaluation and operation of AI-powered applications.
• Strong proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (e.g. Java Kotlin Scala Python)
• Proven track record of delivering AI-powered backend solutions in a collaborative environment from ideation and planning to implementation and launch.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large-scale systems including well-designed APIs high-volume data pipelines and efficient algorithms.
• Demonstrated ability to make data-driven decisions articulate technical trade-offs and communicate effectively with cross-functional partners.
• BS MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Ability to communicate proficiently in English in a professional setting.
• Nice to have: Recent industry experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems search retrieval and ranking systems to power end-to-end AI-powered products or Agentic Systems.

Your Location:

This position is China - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

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.

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