Research Scientist

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone or tablet.

We are looking for Research Scientists & Applied Researchers to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work on challenging data problems.

• Building a conversational interface to create a far more interactive booking flow
• Natural Language Processing to understand text content on Airbnb platform, including reviews, descriptions and interactions between users on our marketplace.
• Determining the optimal pricing strategies to help our Hosts effectively manage their listings and achieve their revenue goals.
• Identifying real-time optimal pricing + supply & demand strategies for hosts

• 5+ years of industry experience or a PhD + 2 years industry experience
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Ability to write high performance production quality code. Experience in Java, C++, Python, Scala and other equivalent languages is a plus.
• Industry experience building and productionizing innovative end-to-end Machine Learning systems.
• Good understanding of common families of models, feature engineering, feature selection and other practical machine learning issues, such as overfitting.
• Experience with MapReduce, Spark and Hive a plus.
• Experience with productizing research/publications a plus.
• Experience with Computer Vision, Image Detection/Recognition, NLP/NLU, Deep Learning a plus.