Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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.

This Senior Machine Learning Engineer role is part of the Distribution & Supply team which sits within our Technology division. The Distribution & Supply team builds and optimizes the machine learning–driven systems that power how our travel supply is connected, priced, and surfaced across Expedia Group's global marketplace, ensuring partners can efficiently reach travelers with the right inventory at the right time. In this role, you will apply advanced machine learning engineering to design, deploy, and scale robust models that directly improve the quality and performance of our distribution platform for both travelers and partners.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and evolve robust, scalable machine learning systems and services, including system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling to power complex product capabilities across multiple domains.
• Own end-to-end delivery of machine learning features and platforms, from problem framing, data sourcing, feature engineering, and model development and evaluation through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing operational support.
• Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to translate ambiguous business and customer problems into clear ML-driven solutions, selecting appropriate modeling approaches and integrating them into production services and applications.
• Improve model and system quality, reliability, and performance by driving best practices in experimentation, validation, observability, security, and operational excellence for the ML services you own.
• Mentor and support other engineers and data practitioners through technical design discussions, review of modeling and code work, and knowledge sharing, helping to elevate ML engineering practices across teams and domains.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, with familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language commonly used at Expedia Group for ML (such as Python or Java), with deep understanding of core software engineering concepts, system design (LLD), API design, data modeling, and ML fundamentals including model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Proven experience working with service-oriented or microservice architectures to integrate ML capabilities into production systems, including building and consuming APIs, working with large-scale data pipelines, and ensuring reliability, scalability, and security of ML-backed services.
• Hands-on experience operating ML workflows in production environments, including monitoring model and data health, responding to incidents, and improving systems based on experimental results and operational feedback.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience architecting and evolving complex, distributed ML platforms or systems that support high-volume, low-latency prediction workloads or large-scale batch inference, including clear, well-versioned API contracts and resilient data models.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design for ML-driven features or services, make sound tradeoffs between modeling complexity, performance, and operational cost, and align solutions with broader domain or organizational standards.
• Track record of driving operational excellence for ML systems, such as improving observability of models and data, reducing manual toil through automation (for example, CI/CD for models, feature stores, or model registry workflows), and enhancing performance, resilience, or cost efficiency.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including designing and running experiments, using metrics and analytics to guide model iteration, and managing model lifecycle (retraining, versioning, and rollout strategies).
• Hands-on experience with advanced AI/ML tooling and infrastructure appropriate to this level (for example, distributed training frameworks, modern ML platforms, or inference optimization techniques) and using these to deliver robust, scalable, and trustworthy ML solutions across multiple product or domain areas.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.