Zillow · 1 day ago
Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$191K/yr - $306K/yrZillow is a leading real estate platform aiming to transform the industry through AI technologies. The Principal Applied Scientist will research and develop advanced multimodal technologies to enhance the home shopping experience, focusing on computer vision and natural language processing tasks.
MarketplaceOnline PortalsPropTechReal Estate
Responsibilities
Design, prototype, and develop multi-agent image-forward, voice-assisted experiences
Improve real estate shopping experience using computer vision tasks such as VLM captioning, object detection and localization, segmentation, and multimodal semantic retrieval
Serve as the focal point for developing a science roadmap, driving alignment across stakeholders on technical capabilities, timelines, and prioritization
Represent the team at conferences, publish in top-tier journals, like CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ACL, and SIGGRAPH, and champion internal best practices
Build innovative solutions that personalize using user behavior, context signals, and real-time environmental data
Distill complex research findings and system designs into actionable insights for diverse audiences
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Computer Vision, NLP, or related fields, with emphasis on multimodal learning
Deep expertise in developing and scaling perception models that combine imagery, spatial data, and language
Proven science leadership in defining a science roadmap for a team and mentoring other scientists
Track record of publishing high-impact research in top venues like CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ACL, and SIGGRAPH
Experience developing multi-agent dialogue systems with long context multimodal chain of thought reasoning
Track record of shipping large-scale, high-impact consumer-facing solutions to production and measuring business impact
Preferred
Hands-on experience fine-tuning voice-AI models for automatic speech recognition, turn detection, and speech generation is a bonus
Experience with geospatial datasets and 3-D vision techniques, like point clouds, Gaussian splatting, or neural radiance fields, is a plus
Benefits
Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Company
Zillow
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing information about homes, real estate, and mortgages. It is a sub-organization of Zillow Group.
Founded in 2005
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$96.63MKey Investors
Legg MasonPAR Capital Management
2016-08-01Post Ipo Equity
2014-04-01Post Ipo Equity
2012-12-12Post Ipo Equity· $4.13M
Leadership Team
Lloyd Frink
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chair
Rich Barton
Co-founder and Co-Executive Chair
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