Senior Applied Scientist

About the team

At Zillow, we’re on a mission to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter. We’re creating innovative, connected, and equitable solutions to help people move from dreaming to transacting.

Zillow’s AI Org plays an important part in delivering unique AI-powered experiences for the hundreds of millions of customers that visit Zillow websites each month. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the Agent AI team, you’ll be partnering with a highly skilled group of applied scientists, software developers, and machine learning engineers working together toward a bold and ambitious goal.

The Agent and Loan Officer AI team at Zillow is focused on making real estate agents, loan officers, and the buyers they are helping have a smoother and more delightful experience. We build end-to-end applications and AI-driven services that help agents and loan officers use their time more efficiently, giving them more insight into how to help each buyer they are interacting with, and by using machine learning tools like Large Language Models to help them communicate more effectively with home buyers.

Learn more about what we are doing at https://www.zillow.com/engineering and https://www.zillow.com/ai

We are seeking a skilled Sr Applied Scientist to aid in designing and delivering AI-powered experiences.

About the role

You Will Get To:

• Collaborate with team members from diverse domains: product, data, and science

• Design, develop, and deploy NLP, LLM and ML models to solve complex business problems.

• Conduct advanced data analysis on large scale datasets to improve model accuracy and performance.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest in NLP and ML technologies including state of the art large language models and Generative AI workflows (RAG, fine-tuning) 

• Lead and mentor junior scientists and engineers in the team.

• Publish and present research findings at conferences and other forums

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, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $156,300.00 - $249,700.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a …