Expedia Group
Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Personalization
USA - California - San Jose, USA · Senior
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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.
- 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 scientists.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end scientific work across problem formulation, data exploration, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, and iteration, with strong attention to measurable impact
- Use strong technical judgment to select appropriate methods, validate outcomes, and improve model performance, reliability, and operational quality across multiple problem domains
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience
Nice to have
- Strong experience with recommendation, ranking, retrieval, search, personalization, ads, marketplace, e-commerce, or similarly complex applied ML systems
- Relevant academic publications, patents, open-source contributions, technical blog posts, industry talks, or other contributions to the ML/recommender-systems community
- The total cash range for this position in San Jose is $187,000.00 to $261,500.00.
- Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, 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
- $187k-$262k
Benefits
- Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Personalization
Company info
- At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time.
- Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Personalization Introduction to the team The Unified Personalization Service team is part of Expedia Product & Technology.
- The Unified Personalization Service team is part of Expedia Product & Technology.
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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