Airbnb Engineering

@AirbnbEng

Creative engineers building a world where you can belong anywhere.

San Francisco, CA

airbnb.io

Joined September 2012

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Airbnb Engineering
@AirbnbEng
Oct 19
Airbnb is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of EMNLP 2026! We'll be sharing talks & posters on LLM tool-agent harnesses, agentic orchestration, and agentic RAG, plus we're hiring applied NLP/AI talent. Come say hi at our booth and let's explore whats next for AI at Airbnb!
Airbnb Engineering
@AirbnbEng
Oct 13
How do you train search before the first real query? 🏡 Airbnb’s CASTLE combines AI with booking behavior to generate realistic search queries and relevance labels, helping natural language search better understand what guests want. See how it works 👇
CASTLE: training natural language search before the first real query
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Airbnb Engineering
@AirbnbEng
Oct 6
Synthetic benchmarks test what you imagine. Real traffic tests what your database actually handles. At Airbnb, we replay production traffic offline to catch issues before they hit production. Check out our latest blog post to learn more!
Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb
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Airbnb Engineering
@AirbnbEng
Oct 1
How do you design AI products that don't break when LLMs get unpredictable? Our very own Alicia Bendz will share real lessons, architecture patterns, and the questions every team should ask before shipping at next Wednesday's Women Who Code Summit. womenwhocode.com/agenda/?bz_ses…
Airbnb Engineering
@AirbnbEng
Sep 29
What if you could personalize an experience without knowing who the user is? Airbnb's new Proximity Features use collective signals from nearby users to power smart, privacy-safe recommendations with no persistent user identity required.
Personalization without user identity
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