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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.\nHere, 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.\nIntroduction to the Team\nWithin CTO Enablement, the AI Enablement and Culture Office is helping Expedia Group become AI-native by turning AI experimentation into measurable business impact: creating capacity, improving speed and quality, and building AI fluency across the enterprise.\nAs a Principal AI Learning Engineer, you are an engineer by background and a learning designer by craft. You build the programs, prototypes and proof that turn emerging AI capabilities into everyday practice, primarily for developers who write and ship code, and also for builders across Expedia Group who create with AI agents and tools. Engineers trust you because you build alongside them, and they change how they work because your learning lives inside their tools and workflows.\n In this role, you will:\nDefine the technical learning architecture for AI-native engineering at Expedia Group: role- and level-based pathways for developers (software, machine learning and data engineering) and for builders (product, program, design and business roles), mapped to role expectations.\nBuild hands-on learning that lives inside the work: reference implementations, starter repositories, guided labs, agent and workflow templates, and sandboxes in the tools engineers already use. Prototype tools when they unblock learning, then hand them to owning teams.\nConvert proven patterns from business-unit engagements into reusable, teachable engineering standards, covering prompting, evaluation, AI-assisted code review, agentic delegation and responsible AI guardrails.\nDefine success measures before launch and connect skill and behavior change to usage and delivery data, reporting impact on capacity, speed and quality without overstating cause and effect.\nDevelop senior and principal engineers across multiple organizations into multipliers of AI-native practice, mentoring them on design and technical judgment as well as teaching, and scale through champion, lab-leader and train-the-trainer models.\nPartner with Developer Experience, Learning and Development, AI platform and business-unit technology leaders to align learning investment with platform roadmaps and business priorities, influencing across multiple organizations without formal authority.\nSafely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, evaluating emerging capabilities pragmatically and deciding what becomes standard practice, what stays an experiment, and what gets retired.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.\n10+ years of relevant professional experience.\nDeep hands-on software engineering across the full development life cycle, including coding standards, code review, testing and observability, with a record of building reference solutions other teams adopt.\nProficiency in system design, API development and data modeling, with a working command of the large-scale distributed environments where reference patterns must run.\nHands-on experience building, deploying or operating AI-enabled systems, tools, agents or workflows, and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products or engineering work.\nExperience teaching engineers at scale through curricula, workshops, labs, documentation or developer education that measurably changed how teams build.\nExperience setting engineering standards or practices that were adopted across multiple teams or organizations.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBackground in developer relations, developer education, developer experience or AI enablement engineering, where building and teaching are the same job.\nWorking command of learning science applied to technical audiences, including adult learning, deliberate practice, curriculum architecture and assessment design.\nExperience designing and productionizing LLM, agentic or AI-assisted developer workflows, including evaluation, human-in-the-loop controls and responsible AI guardrails.\nExperience measuring whether AI skills and behaviors actually improved, and connecting that to engineering productivity or business outcomes.\nA track record of turning skeptical senior engineers into adopters and partners, and scaling hands-on learning across global teams through champions or train-the-trainer models.\nExperience enabling both developers and non-engineering builders from one common, tool-agnostic framework adapted to each role's real work.\nPublic evidence of building and teaching, such as talks, courses, open-source examples or technical writing.\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $369,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nStarting 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.\nBenefits and perks\nExpedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.\nAccommodation requests\nExpedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request athttps://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.\nAbout Expedia Group\nExpedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.\nImportant notice\nEmployment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.\nEqual Opportunity\nExpedia 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. 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