Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI
About the team
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The Agentic AI team at Zillow is at the forefront of transforming the real estate industry by helping millions of people use AI assistants to find their next home. Within this organization, the Agentic Solutions team develops AI-powered experiences that help people navigate their real estate journey, understand their options, make informed decisions and take action. Our applied scientists work closely with engineering, product and design to turn advances in AI into reliable features that deliver measurable customer value. Our work sits at the intersection of large language models and traditional machine learning, such as ranking and personalization, and we are a small team where every scientist has real ownership and influence over what we build.
About the role
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As a Senior Applied Scientist on the Agentic AI team, you will tackle complex, ambiguous problems from scientific framing and modeling through evaluation, experimentation and production delivery, and help shape which problems we solve and how we measure success.
You will:
- Own ambiguous applied-science problems end to end, from identifying an opportunity and forming a hypothesis through data analysis, modeling, experimentation and production iteration
- Develop and compare machine learning and LLM-based approaches to improve customer experiences, establishing useful baselines, adapting relevant research and adding complexity when the evidence supports it
- Build reliable datasets and offline evaluations, and design online experiments that connect model quality to meaningful customer and business outcomes
- Partner with engineering, product, design and science teams to turn promising methods into reliable production capabilities, balancing quality, safety, latency and cost
- Write maintainable Python and SQL, contribute production-ready scientific components, and share methods, findings and technical decisions with other scientists and engineers
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, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $164,400.00 - $262,600.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to thes...
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