Zillow · 15 hours ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Shopping AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$172K/yr - $274K/yr
3+ years expZillow is a leading real estate platform in the U.S. seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Shopping AI team. The role involves designing and implementing machine learning models to enhance user experiences in home shopping, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation.
MarketplacePublishingReal EstateOnline PortalsPropTech
Responsibilities
Design, build, and ship production new machine learning models that power core product features on the Zillow app, website, and email/push notifications
Re-architect our core home ranking and recommendation systems to support advanced neural networks and dramatically accelerate the pace of experimentation across surfaces
Own the full lifecycle of your models, from offline experimentation and prototyping with massive datasets to online deployment, A/B testing, and performance monitoring
Pioneer the application of cutting-edge deep learning and large language models (LLMs) to improve our home shopping experience
Develop new AI components that optimize how we display and when we recommend homes, ensuring we connect shoppers with the right content on the right properties at the right time
Collaborate in a cross-functional group of engineers, applied scientists, product managers, and designers to define, execute, and iterate on the team's strategic roadmap
Contribute to the team's engineering excellence by improving our machine learning infrastructure, development standards, and shared tooling
Act as a key technical voice, mentoring other engineers and helping to shape the long-term vision for artificial intelligence in the home shopping experience
Qualification
Required
3-5 years of experience in developing applications in search, personalized ranking, or recommender systems
Experience developing and deploying ML models that scale to high-traffic, latency sensitive customer-facing services (100s of millions of requests per day)
Strong programming skills in a high-level language such as Python or Java
Familiarity with common machine learning libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Catboost, scikit-learn and huggingface (repository)
Expertise with large scale distributed data processing systems such as Hive, Spark, Airflow, or Databricks
Experience owning the full lifecycle of customer facing machine learning models, from offline experimentation and prototyping to online deployment, A/B testing, and performance monitoring
Here at Zillow - we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences
Preferred
A Master's degree + 3 yrs or BS with a minimum of 5 yrs of experience (preferably in large consumer tech companies)
Prior experience or high level of curiosity with generative AI and excitement to collaborate on what they've learned!
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.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$96.63MKey Investors
Legg MasonPAR Capital ManagementBenchmark,TCV
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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