Senior ML​/Gen AI Engineer

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Senior ML/Gen AIEngineer

Introduction to the Team:

Expedia Technologyteamspartner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

We are the Strategic Partnerships&Affiliates team in the Expedia Product & Technology division of Expedia Group. We are building the next-generation, scalable B2B partnership platform that will power hundreds of thousands of demand partners across the industry ranging from big businesses and Enterprisesto small bloggers, micro influencers and creators in helping them recommend Expedia Group brands to their audiences and in the process grow their businesses.

We aim to redefine the travel partnerships sector by building innovative partner tools and solutions thatincorporatesthe new ways in which today’s travelers discover andshoptravel products.

To do this, we need technically passionate engineers with an entrepreneurial approach who love challenges, enjoy problemsolvingand take pride in delivering best-in-class products.

You will work with a geo-distributed, cross functional team of50+ engineers designing and developing solutions for complex problems with a wide-reaching business impact.

Inthis role, you will:

• Collaborate closely with ML Scientists to productize and scale ML models, from experimentation to robust production systems

• Design, build, and own large-scale, distributed machine learning systems for training, deployment, inference, and monitoring

• Lead design discussions and architecture reviews; drive high-impact engineering decisions for ML platforms and applications

• Mentor and coach junior engineers and peers on best practices in ML engineering, system design, and code quality

• Develop andmaintainreusable components, libraries, and tools to accelerate ML development lifecycle

• Proactivelyidentifyareas for improvement in model performance, pipeline efficiency, data quality, or platform capabilities

• Ensure scalability, observability, and fault-tolerance across all components of the ML stack

• Promote engineering excellence by advocating for best practices in testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring

• Partner with stakeholders across Data Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Platform teams to align solutions with business goals

• Stay up to date on advancements inMLOps, ML frameworks, distributed systems, and apply learnings to improve systems and processes

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 8+ years of experience in software/ML engineering with a proven track recordof delivering ML solutions at scale

• Strong programming skills in modern languages such as Python, Scala, or Java

• Deep experience in building andmaintainingproduction-grade ML pipelines and infrastructure

• Expertise in
  
  MLOpspractices, including model lifecycle management, versioning, monitoring, and CI/CD for ML

• Experience with big data ecosystems(e.g., Spark, Hive, Databricks, Delta Lake) and streaming technologies

• Proficient in working with ML frameworks like Tensor Flow,PyTorch,XGBoost, or similar

• Experience working in cloud-based environments(AWS,…