Senior Data Scientist, Platform

Airbnb
US - Remote Eligible2026-02-06

About the job

The Content Integrity Data Science team helps build and protect trust by ensuring that the content on Airbnb, including listings, profiles, messages and other user-generated experiences, is accurate, authentic and aligned with our policies and community standards. The ideal candidate is a motivated and talented 'full-stack' Data Scientist with strong applied ML intuition and a bias toward impact, who can own and drive forward challenging, high-visibility initiatives.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

Trust & Safety experience is a plus