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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.
Senior Software Development - AI EngineerOur 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.
At Expedia Group Fraud & Risk (EFR) we are the guardians of marketplace trust. We protect EG from financial loss and brand damage securing every channel for our customers partners suppliers and employees. Our world‑class engineering and machine learning turn massive noisy signals into real‑time decisions that minimize risk while keeping traveler friction low.
What makes this work unique: in travel risk doesn’t stop at checkout it spans the entire journey. The global ecosystem is vast and fragmented control points are scarce and every leg introduces new unknowns. Our mission is bold: deliver a fully trusted journey from purchase to safe return home. That’s hard and exactly why science and technology matter most.
If you’re energized by complex high‑impact problems with no obvious answers and want to shape the future of risk with AI on a global scale join us. Let’s redefine how the world travels safely confidently and at speed.
Role Summary
Lead the architecture and delivery of real-time AI-powered fraud and abuse defenses on a global scale. You will design cloud-native decisioning and automated remediation systems simplify our platform and align cross-functional teams to measurable outcomes.
In this role you will:
Own technical architecture and lead design and delivery of AI-driven solutions for automated risk decisioning and remediation.
Incorporate and integrate Generative and Agentic AI into fraud detection workflows simplifying and modernizing the platform while reducing time to detect and mitigate attacks.
Benchmark various vendor open source and in-house solutions for performance cost and risk posture.
Build deploy and operate ML in production; partner closely with Data Science/ML Scientists on features experimentation and monitoring.
Establish clear SLOs observability and safety/rollback mechanisms; ensure security privacy and compliance are built in.
Mentor other engineers and champion the use of AI within the organization
Minimum Qualifications
9+ years of software engineering including significant experience developing deploying and operating ML/AI driven solutions in production.
Demonstrable experience building monitoring and debugging LLM and multi-agent applications with frameworks and platforms such as LangChain LangGraph Langfuse or equivalent.
RAG-based architecture experience including data orchestration frameworks such as LlamaIndex vector databases such as Pinecone or equivalent.
Exposure to various LLM providers such as OpenAI Gemini and Anthropic.
Production ML experience (supervised/anomaly detection feature pipelines online inference monitoring/retraining); ability to ship with Data Science/ML Science partners.
Strong coding skills in one or more of Java/Scala/Go/Python
Familiarity with distributed cloud-native engineering at scale (AWS GCP or Azure) microservices API-driven design SQL/NoSQL databases and data streaming/processing (Kafka Flink Spark).
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven experience building and operating either fraud and risk systems in production or other similarly ML/AI heavy systems.
Graph/sequence modeling or entity resolution at scale; device and behavioral signals.
Track record reducing manual operations via automation and platform simplification.
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.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia® Hotels.com® Expedia® Partner Solutions Vrbo® trivago® Orbitz® Travelocity® Hotwire® Wotif® ebookers® CheapTickets® Expedia Group™ Media Solutions Expedia Local Expert® CarRentals.com™ and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.Skills Required
- 9+ years of software engineering experience
- Significant experience with ML/AI solutions in production
- Experience with LLM and multi-agent applications
- Production ML experience
- Strong coding skills in Java/Scala/Go/Python
Expedia Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Expedia Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Expedia Group.
- Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits—Wellness and travel perks are positioned as differentiators with wellness and travel reimbursement brand discounts and IATAN access supporting work-life balance. Flexible schedules commuter benefits and onsite amenities further enhance lifestyle value.
- Parental & Family Support—Family-focused provisions include generous parental leave adoption and surrogacy assistance childcare benefits and caregiver support. Pet care leave and company-sponsored family events broaden the definition of family support.
- Inclusive Benefits Coverage—Healthcare is described as inclusive extending coverage to partners regardless of gender or marital status and offering fertility and transgender services. This breadth signals support for diverse life stages and identities.
Expedia Group Insights
What We Do
Expedia Group powers travel for everyone everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia® Hotels.com® Expedia® Partner Solutions Vrbo® trivago® Orbitz® Travelocity® Hotwire® Wotif® ebookers® CheapTickets® Expedia Group™ Media Solutions Expedia Local Expert® CarRentals.com™ and Expedia Cruises™.
Why Work With Us
As travelers and technologists we are passionate about making travel more seamless accessible and memorable. We embrace different perspectives celebrate new ideas and empower every Expedian to drive meaningful change. The experiences we create bridge divides and broaden horizons – helping create unforgettable memories through travel.
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