Machine Learning Scientist, Expedia Group

$125.5-176k

Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $201,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Python
Tensorflow
Spark
NumPy
Pandas
Scikit-Learn
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
Chicago
Expedia Group

Online travel shopping company

Open for applications

Expedia Group

Online travel shopping company

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceTransportFlightseCommerce

Open for applications

$125.5-176k

Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $201,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Python
Tensorflow
Spark
NumPy
Pandas
Scikit-Learn
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
Chicago

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceTransportFlightseCommerce

Company mission

Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

Role

Who you are

  • PhD or Master’s degree in a technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
  • 3+ years of experience in building machine learning models in the industry
  • Solid understanding of modern machine learning theories and techniques, mathematics, statistics, and hypothesis testing
  • Hands-on experience with data wrangling, feature engineering, model building, and visualization
  • Fluency in Python programming and related machine learning tools (such as NumPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn), deep learning frameworks (such as TensorFlow or PyTorch), and SQL-like query languages (such as Spark)
  • Experience working with large data sets in a distributed computing environment
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences

What the job involves

  • Expedia’s Data and AI group is looking for a Machine Learning Scientist to join our Search Machine Learning team
  • In this role, you will develop machine learning models and data-driven solutions that bring intelligence to our search capabilities
  • You will contribute to highly visible features on our websites with direct impact to our travelers
  • With multiple brands and lines of businesses in our portfolio, Expedia Group has unparalleled and rich travel data and platform for you to explore new ideas and unlock significant value
  • Work with product management to understand business problems, identify challenges and machine learning opportunities, and scope solutions
  • Formulate machine learning problems, build data ETL pipeline, conduct exploratory data analyses, and develop effective models and scalable solutions
  • Partner with engineering teams to deliver your solutions into production and to provide ML expertise support
  • Document the technical details of your work
  • Present your ideas and results to stakeholders and leadership teams in a clear and effective manner
  • Collaborate and brainstorm with other team members and across the company

Our take

Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.

Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.

What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.

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9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Leisure Travel Reimbursement
  • Travel Discounts
  • Family & Friends Discount
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Wellness Reimbursement
  • Global Service Awards
  • Business Travel Medical Insurance
  • Matching Gifts
  • Expert Medical Opinion
  • New Parent Benefit
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 401K Plan
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Life Insurance

Company values

  • Force Simplicity
  • Include Consciously
  • Trust Each Other
  • Go Get What's Next
  • Choose Fearlessly

Company HQ

Interbay, Seattle, WA

Leadership

Peter M. Kern

(CEO, not founder)

Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.


People progressing

Joined as Manager - Strategic Initiatives and has been promoted multiple times to Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives after 1 year, to Director - Strategic Initiatives also after 1 year, and again to Senior Director - Strategy & Supply after 2 years. Now works as the Vice President of the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.

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