Expedia Group

Expedia Group

Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Washington - Seattle Campus, USA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$231k-$324kDetected 9 hours ago
Code ReviewAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningLLMsRAGA/B TestingRecruitingLeadershipMentoring

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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 47 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.

Green-card intent detected

Expedia, Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Software Developers in Austin, TEXAS on 2026-06-17. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 9 days (2026-09-14), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.

Green-card follow-through: 75%

Of 16 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 4 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 451 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

Files H-1B transfers

83 transfer filings in the last year, covering 83 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

  • Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business-unit and functional leaders, domain experts, end users, and technologists across Expedia Group to discover high-value AI opportunities, define measurable outcomes, and establish pragmatic delivery plans.
  • Own the full lifecycle of AI initiatives-from discovery to use-case framing to technical design t o rapid prototyping, production deployment, adoption, measurement, value realization and continuous improvement.
  • Design highly complex systems that interact across a business unit, applying sound system design, API design, data modeling, observability, evaluation, and testability practices across multiple technologies and languages.
  • Influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholder groups, aligning senior leaders and partners around domain strategy, trade-offs, and measurable outcomes.
  • Develop engineers, senior individual contributors, and emerging technical leaders; coach senior talent to operate independently and extend engineering practices across the organization.
  • 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.
  • Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, or a master's degree with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent professional experience.
  • Experience making technology and architecture choices across teams and multiple technologies or languages, while guiding others toward well-defined solutions for complex systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing and productionizing LLM, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic, conversational, or AI-assisted workflow solutions.
  • Experience establishing AI evaluation and governance practices, including quality measurement, hallucination mitigation, confidence scoring, human oversight, security, privacy, auditability, and monitoring.
  • The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00.
  • Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $398,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
  • Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
  • Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
  • Accommodation requests
  • Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience.

Compensation

  • $231k-$324k

Company info

  • Within CTO Enablement, the AI Enablement and Culture Office is helping Expedia Group become AI-native by turning AI experimentation into measurable business impact-creating capacity, improving speed and quality, and building AI fluency across the enterprise.
  • As a Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed with teams in Business Units/Enterprise functions across EG to identify high-value opportunities, translate ambiguous business challenges into measurable outcomes, and rapidly prototype, productionize, and scale AI-powered solutions.
  • You will be a highly influential technical leader who coaches senior individual contributors in leadership and engineering practices, partners with executive leaders, and turns emerging AI capabilities into reusable patterns, tools, and ways of working that teams can adopt.
  • Combining deep hands-on engineering with strong partnership and change leadership, you will help teams adopt AI responsibly and at scale while keeping meaningful outcomes for travelers, partners, and employees at the center.
  • At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time.

Equal opportunity

  • Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.
  • This employer participates in E-Verify.
  • The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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