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Machine Learning Scientist III – Growth Marketing (Production GenAI & Agentic Multimodal Workflows)

Expedia
Full-time
On-site
Seattle, Washington, United States
$137,500 - $192,500 USD yearly
Machine Learning

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team 

We create and deliver an aligned, dedicated marketing strategy to fuel each Expedia Group brand's success. Since our travelers interact with us through our brands, we have a brand focus in our marketing, while leveraging the scale and efficiency we’ve built in functional expertise. 

At Expedia Group, our Growth Marketing team is redefining how data-driven marketing meets AI-powered, agentic automation. We drive performance through best-in-class, scalable machine learning, deploying production-ready multimodal LLMs, GenAI, and agentic NLP architectures. Our agentic systems power everything from personalized travel discovery to real-time, cross-platform campaign execution at massive scale. Explore “Trip Matching” on Instagram for a glimpse into our production chatbot transforming inspiring reels and posts into hotel recommendation. 

As an ML Scientist III, your mission is to engineer, and scale production AI workflows, agents, and multimodal LLM pipelines, leveraging both in-house and third-party systems. You’ll develop agentic solutions with advanced orchestration tools like LangGraph, Langfuse, RAG, and the latest frameworks, owning end-to-end delivery and optimizations for inference and GenAI systems. 

In this role, you will: 

  • Develop and deploy complex agentic and multimodal AI workflows at production scale, architecting memory-enabled, context-aware agents that drive dynamic automation, personalization, real-time monitoring and content generation. 

  • Design and orchestrate advanced LLM and RAG-driven agent solutions using modular frameworks including LangGraph, Langfuse, CrewAI, AutoGen, and other emerging agentic orchestration tools—enabling adaptive, stateful, and highly interactive workflow graphs. 

  • Integrate and optimize complete multimodal GenAI pipelines: text-to-image, image-to-video, text-to-video, and text-to-voice, leveraging and extending in-house and third party models. 

  • Fine-tune (parameter-efficient tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, etc.), and evaluate (perplexity, accuracy, creativity metrics) both open-source (Llama, MPT, Phi-4, etc.) and commercial LLMs (OpenAI GPT-4, Gemini, Claude). 

  • Pioneer LLM-based simulation & evaluation environments (e.g., LLM-as-a-Judge): Leverage the latest LLMs, multi-agent systems, and generative tools to simulate user behavior, accelerate experimental cycles, and rigorously evaluate new features or workflows in both synthetic and prod online shopping and travel environments. 

  • Simulate A/B testing via LLM simulations: Build A/B test agents capable of simulating user engagement, behavioral outcomes, and marketing scenarios to complement and replace large-scale online testing—enabling rapid iteration, robust pre-deployment validation, and deeper insight into agentic/LLM-driven feature impact. 

  • Continuously adopt and iterate on the latest frameworks, staying current with state-of-the-art in agentic orchestration, memory models, multimodal GenAI, LLM pipelines, and LLM operation (RAG, memory, tracing, evaluation). 

  • Collaborate deeply with engineering, marketing, and product teams to translate evolving business objectives into scalable and observable AI-driven solutions. 

Experience and qualifications: 

  • Minimum 7+ years experience delivering robust, scalable AI/GenAI solutions at enterprise scale with a Bachelors degree (4-5+ year of relevant experience with a Masters/PhD in CS, EE, Stats) 

  • Agentic frameworks experience working with platforms such as LangGraph, Langfuse, RAG, CrewAI, AutoGen, and comparable agent workflow frameworks 

  • Ability to design complex agent graphs with memory, tool calling, and multi-step reasoning 

  • Multimodal and agentic AI experience in both commercial and open-source models (VLMs, CLIP, Phi-4, DINO, etc), advanced LLM pipeline design, and shipping both inference and generative AI features to users 

  • Hands-on experience in fundamental neural network models (CNN, Transformers, BERT, VAEs, Multimodals etc) 

  • Proven expertise in architecting persistent, hybrid, and context-managed memory for agentic workflows 

  • Strong in Python (PyTorch, HuggingFace, etc.), MLOps, distributed systems (PySpark, Databricks, Airflow), and scalable API engineering 

  • Deep experience with tracing, logging, and observability stacks (Langfuse, PromptLayer, Weights & Biases, etc.), including prompt monitoring and model evaluation in live production 

  • Ability to translate complex technical systems into actionable solutions for cross-functional teams, leveraging Multimodal LLMs and Gen AI models 

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, 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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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