AI Engineer III

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere. AI Engineer III Customer Data Platform at EG builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality data experiences for travelers, partners, and our internal teams. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.   As an AI Engineer, you will lead projects, design and build scalable, reliable data services and pipelines by leveraging AI tools and technologies that power analytics, reporting, and data-driven product experiences. You will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with data engineering and AI skills to deliver secure, high-quality data products on modern cloud infrastructure.  In this role, you will:    Own and evolve complex, business‑critical data products end to end — from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and day‑to‑day production support, escalating appropriately on the most complex or cross‑org decisions  Apply modern engineering practices and use AI as a co‑pilot across the software development lifecycle to clarify requirements, explore designs, accelerate coding, strengthen automated testing, and improve operational excellence and reliability  Collaborate with partners across engineering, product, data, and business functions — contributing to cross‑team designs, surfacing trade‑offs clearly, and helping align simple, resilient solutions  Design and integrate services, APIs, and data models so that high‑quality data and capabilities are easily consumable by both human users and AI systems, working within established architectural patterns and guardrail  Share knowledge and mentor others, especially earlier‑career engineers, through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions — including helping teammates use AI tools effectively and responsibly as part of their daily workflow  Experience & Qualifications:     Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience  5+ years of relevant professional experience  Experience with owning data products, with demonstrated impact within a domain or product  Proven experience delivering at least one significant end to end service or product within a product or domain using AI tools(like Claude, Codex, copilot). Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (like Java, Scala) and strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented or functional design), with hands-on experience in system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling  Experience working with data pipelines, batch and stream, including building, consuming, and evolving them.

Experience designing and building reliable, scalable systems on cloud platforms, including contributing to service boundaries, resilience mechanisms, and operational best practices  Strong proficiency using AI tools and techniques as part of everyday software engineering work (for example, exploring implementation options, generating and hardening code, enhancing test coverage, or analyzing