- Company: Airbnb
- Salary: $179,000–$210,000/yr
- Work type: Remote
Airbnb at a glance
airbnb.com- Founded 2008
- Employees 5597
- Ticker ABNB
- Revenue $12.24B
- Net income $2.51B
Investor research: Yahoo Finance · SEC filings
5,569 employees covered under a retirement plan (2023 filing) — via DOL Form 5500 / EFAST2
Registered as a global legal entity (LEI 549300HMUDNO0RY56D37, US) — via GLEIF
Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) is a U.S. marketplace for short- and long-term stays, experiences, and services. Founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia, it brokers bookings and takes a commission. Public filings and company facts list roughly 5,600 employees.
46,241 Wikipedia views in July 2026 — a rough gauge of public visibility.
Senior Data Scientist, Trust (Inference) | Airbnb | Anywhere in the World
Position Summary
The Platform Data Science team at Airbnb is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our efforts in safeguarding guest and host trust. You will be responsible for detecting and defending against adversarial behavior, such as fraudulent listings, fake inventory manipulation, review and content manipulation, account takeover, and other bad-actor activities on the platform. Your work will directly impact the safety, smartness, and personalization of Airbnb experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Own rigorous statistical thinking and applied ML to measure the impact of new listing integrity defenses, model risk at the listing or account level, and evaluate enforcement policies.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, policy, and operations teams across Trust to ensure guest and host trust is maintained.
- Conduct experiments and causal inference to drive product evolution and business outcomes.
- Develop scalable intelligence systems that enhance the overall user experience on Airbnb.
Who We're Looking For
- Rigorous statistical thinker with a strong background in machine learning and data science.
- Experience in causal inference, experimentation design, and risk modeling.
- Aptitude for working with large datasets and developing scalable solutions.
- Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate across teams.
More About Airbnb
At Airbnb, our real innovation is not allowing people to book a home; it's designing a framework to allow millions of people to trust one another. Trust is the energy source that drives Airbnb. Our mission is to make the world more connected through unique travel experiences. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
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Available discussion links are older Hacker News threads titled “Joining a Different YC,” not recent employee reviews of Airbnb. Treat them as historical startup chatter, not current workplace ratings. Recent news covers product/policy adjacent topics (travel cards, host stories, safety incidents) rather than Trust/ML culture.
Recent news
- The government wants its websites to be as shiny as Silicon Valley's. An Airbnb founder is helping. - Yahoo Finance
- Real Estate Agent Bought a Marvel Movie Subway Car for $5,000. Now He’s Turning It into an Airbnb (Exclusive) - People.com
- North Carolina man accused of shooting and killing another tourist inside of a Broward Airbnb, police say - CBS News
- Airbnb, Vrbo and more: A dive into the Chase Sapphire Preferred’s new vacation homes bonus category - The Points Guy
- Airbnb sauna ‘debauchery’ leaves neighbours hot and bothered - The Telegraph
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Build the skills for this role
Role-shaped focus areas (no cert package in source data):
- Applied ML for classification/ranking under class imbalance (trust/fraud-style problems)
- Online inference: batch vs real-time features, monitoring, and rollback criteria
- Experimentation and causal-aware evaluation for safety/policy tradeoffs
- SQL/Python, model ops collaboration with platform teams
Prepare for senior DS depth on metrics, abuse/fraud intuition, and shipping models:
- Case: detect fake listings or payment risk with limited labels
- Inference design: latency, feature freshness, calibration
- Behavioral: cross-functional Trust decisions under uncertainty
Strong fit if you ship production ML for risk/trust at marketplace scale and care about precision–recall under real user harm. Remote-friendly listing; thin salary and review data means you should verify comp and team scope with Airbnb recruiters.
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Listing facts
- Role Senior Data Scientist, Trust (Inference)
- Employer Airbnb
- Work mode Remote
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) $179,000–$210,000/yr
- Posted August 7, 2026
- Apply by September 6, 2026
- Country WORLDWIDE
- Overview Full job description on this page (295 words)
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