Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Personalization

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Senior Machine Learning Scientist – Personalization Introduction to the team

The Unified Personalization Service team is part of Expedia Product & Technology. UPS is building Expedia Group's centralized, real-time personalization engine across brands and channels, powering ranking, recommendations, retrieval, and other adaptive experiences that help travelers see more relevant, contextual, and useful experiences throughout their journey.

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to help shape the next generation of deep learning systems for personalization, including recommendation, ranking, retrieval, traveler understanding, sequential modeling, and foundation-model-based personalization.

This is a senior hands-on applied science and engineering role for someone who can translate recent research into production-quality systems, influence technical direction, raise the modeling bar for the team, and mentor other  this role, you will:

Design, develop, and apply machine learning solutions to real-world personalization, product, and business problems, translating ambiguous opportunities into scalable models, experiments, and production-ready capabilities

Drive end-to-end scientific work across problem formulation, data exploration, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, and iteration, with strong attention to measurable impact

Partner closely with engineers, product, and business stakeholders to integrate machine learning solutions into services and workflows, including system design, API design, and data modeling considerations where applicable

Use strong technical judgment to select appropriate methods , validate outcomes, and improve model performance, reliability, and operational quality across multiple problem domains

Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products

Contribute deep technical expertise across related domains, helping raise scientific and engineering quality through experimentation, documentation, mentoring, and reusable approaches that support broader team effectiveness

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience8+ years of relevant professional experience

Demonstrated ownership of machine learning solutions at the service or multi-service level, including problem definition, model development, evaluation, and operationalization within a product or technical domain

Strong foundation in machine learning methods, statistical analysis, experimentation, and data-driven decision making, with hands-on coding experience in scientific and production-oriented environments

Experience working with cross-functional partners to deploy technical solutions, with core expectations in scalable model development, data modeling, and integration into software systems

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field

Experience delivering machine learning solutions at scale, including architecture considerations, production monitoring, model lifecycle management, and operational excellence in live environments

Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction within a domain through rigorous experimentation, strong…