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Introduction to Team

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

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 endtoend 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 MLdriven 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/MLenabled solutions that improve outcomes, with familiarity with AIdriven 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 serviceoriented or microservice architectures to integrate ML capabilities into production systems, including building and consuming APIs, working with largescale data pipelines, and ensuring reliability, scalability, and security of MLbacked services.

• Handson 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 highvolume, lowlatency prediction workloads or largescale batch inference, including clear, wellversioned API contracts and resilient data models.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design for MLdriven 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 AIdriven 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).

• Handson 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.