AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, NLP or Ranking

About the team

Are you passionate about building new, personalized experiences to change how people shop for homes and rentals? Every month over 180 million users turn to Zillow for help. The Zillow AI Team is re-imagining the home shopping experience, supporting people through the process of finding their home from the convenience of their phones or PCs. Using groundbreaking technologies, our team works across data, product, design, research, engineering, and business to enable people to find their home, tour it, finance it, and connect with the right people to help them close on their dreams. We believe this is the future of home shopping!

About the role

Our team is hiring interns (remote positions) for 2024!

As an intern, you will have the opportunity to innovate for our customers and our business. Your groundbreaking work will help us evolve our key systems, including content creation, home and user understanding, discovery, search, and valuation. We are eager to partner with hardworking students interested in pushing the state-of-the-art in the high-impact research areas of NLP, Large language models, Conversational AI, Mixed-initiative and Goal-oriented Dialog, Fair Housing Alignment, RLHF, Multimodal Image and Text, Multimodal Search, and Recommender systems, Personalization, or Ranking.

Our team has an open attitude towards research, and we encourage publications and continuing collaborations. Many of our past interns have submissions and publications at top conferences such as RecSys and KDD as a product of intern research and team collaboration. Please see https://github.com/zillow/as-research for more details.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Washington the standard base pay range for this role is $104,000.00 - $166,000.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Washington and may not be applicable to other locations.

Who you are

 The ideal AI intern:

• Is a PhD graduate student working towards a degree in computer science, NLP, machine learning, or another applicable field.
• Has experience working in at least one of these areas:
• Deep learning applied to scene understanding, user understanding, conversation.
• Representation learning with no/limited labeled data: self/semi/weakly-supervised learning
• Multi-modal learning, especially …