Machine Learning Scientist

About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

About the team:

This opening is for the GenAI Applications Team within the Data & AI Marketplace department.

The GenAI Applications team is responsible for designing and delivering agentic, ML-powered solutions for some of our most impactful products, including booking search experiences, trip planning, and trip helpfulness. The team builds AI-driven applications and conversational agents, such as chatbots and intelligent assistants, that significantly enhance the end-to-end customer experience.

Role Description:

As a Senior Machine Learning Scientist, you will work closely with engineers and to design, develop, and evaluate machine learning solutions for scalable, customer-facing GenAI applications. Your work will focus on researching, training, fine-tuning, and rigorously evaluating models leveraging LLMs, recommendation systems, and agent-based architectures, using state-of-the-art techniques. You will drive experimentation, define success metrics, and translate insights into impactful AI solutions that shape the future of intelligent travel products.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Explore and apply state-of-the-art techniques in multimodal machine learning.

  
  

• Train innovative ML models (NLP, CV, LLM-finetuning…), build algorithms, and engineering approaches to drive business impact..

  
  

• Coding skills: ensure implementation of reusable frameworks (clean and scalable code).

  
  

• Conduct data analysis with detailed metrics to evaluate model’s performance, labels quality, features exploration.

  
  

• Work closely with machine learning engineers to ensure the model's latency/throughput meets product requirements and ensure deployment of your model to production.

  
  

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams: Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to understand business requirements and translate them into machine learning solutions.

Qualifications & Skills:

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