Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Realtor.com • Austin, TX

327d

About The Position

At Realtor.com, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. We seek a highly seasoned Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and help take it to the next level. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for the development of innovative concepts, research, predictive modeling, and machine learning algorithms. You will serve as a mentor for the junior members on the team and provide guidance on their individual projects in addition to serving as an expert for any algorithms that you develop or help develop.

Requirements

• PhD/MS in computer science, statistics, mathematics, operations research or related fields.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning or applied statistics.
• Experience with Machine Learning, NLP, and data mining tools and underlying algorithms.
• Experienced in Python or other languages and frameworks appropriate for large scale analysis of structured and unstructured data.
• Working experience with relational databases (SQL) and large scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with deep learning tools and packages like Jax, TensorFlow, pyTorch etc.
• Experience with experiment design and A/B and multivariate tests.
• Strong creative thinking and problem solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business and data models to effectively query data
• Effectively partner with product and engineering teams to build new data driven and machine learning based features for enriching the consumer experience of home shoppers, renters and sellers.
• Perform exploratory analysis on Realtor.com's wealth of data.
• Develop predictive, explanatory models and machine learning algorithms.
• Create automated learning systems that gracefully scale to increasing complexity and drive revenue growth, customer retention and support strategic decision making.
• Mentor a team of machine learning engineers on data exploration, machine learning and developing data-oriented products.
• Work with a sense of ownership and urgency, advocate for experimentation based, agile culture.
• Drive a project forward given just a problem and mission statement.

Benefits

• Warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture
• Intellectual challenges
• Development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Personal and Laundry Services
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees