Zillow Group's Shopping AI team is looking to redefine how millions of people discover and shop for homes by building and owning production machine learning systems that power Zillow's core user experience. This includes personalized ranking & recommendations, semantic search, autocomplete, and display optimization, with a future focus on leveraging generative AI for intuitive, personalized experiences.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience designing, training, and analyzing machine learning models to solve business problems.
- Strong programming skills in a high-level language such as Python for data analysis and modeling.
- Familiarity with common machine learning libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Catboost, scikit-learn and huggingface (repository)
- Experience 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
- Experience with the scientific lifecycle, from formulating a hypothesis and designing experiments to analyzing results and communicating findings.
- Prior experience or high level of curiosity with generative AI and excitement to collaborate on what they’ve learned!
Responsibilities
- Research, design, and prototype new machine learning models that will power core product features on the Zillow app, website, and email/push notifications.
- Contribute to the next generation of our home ranking and recommendation systems by developing and testing novel modeling approaches.
- 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.
- Design and validate new AI approaches 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 team projects.
Other
- A Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in an applied science, data science, or research role working on search, personalized ranking, recommender systems, or a related field.
- This role has been categorized as a Remote position.
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
- Applicants who receive job offers from Zillow Group will be asked to sign a Proprietary Rights Agreement which includes confidentiality, intellectual property assignment, customer and employee non-solicitation, and non-competition provisions.
