Senior Data Science Engineer Applied Machine Learning

Hybrid from Seattle is the preferred location but this role is open to fully remote candidates.

Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data beautiful software and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps solving complex business problems in a highly visible customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment join our team!

The Applied Machine Learning group at Redfin works towards redefining real estate in the customers favor using machine learning. We work on foundational problems in the real estate space including recommendations (Where should I live) and price estimation (How much is a home worth). The Brokerage Recommendations product alone which we power drives 27% of all traffic to Redfin platforms. We have real estate data at a national level and work across various domains in machine learning using large-scale multi-modal property data (documents images text video 3D scans etc.). Our team also owns and maintains end-to-end production-grade large-scale machine learning infrastructure and systems serving hundreds of millions of consumers.

As a Senior Data Science Engineer for the Applied Machine Learning Team your job is to leverage advanced analytical techniques and statistical modeling to extract meaningful insights from our vast datasets driving the development and improvement of our machine learning solutions. You will work with an experienced group of machine learning engineers and researchers with robust research to production culture.

The Role:

• You will design and implement advanced statistical models and machine learning algorithms to solve complex real estate problems.

• Youll perform comprehensive Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to understand data structure distributions and anomalies and apply feature engineering techniquesincluding transformation selection and creationto optimize model performance.

• You will co-create the next generation of data-driven insights for automated valuation and recommender systems.

• Identify and implement improvements to ML models that power production-scale customer-facing experiences.

• You will assist other engineers and stakeholders in understanding and utilizing data science methodologies and findings at Redfin.

• Youll build data products and analytical tools that drive some of the companys most critical metrics and impact revenue growth. We are helping create the best possible home buying or selling experience one feature at a time.

Who You Are:

• You have 5 years of experience in data science statistical modeling and software engineering including experience with open-source data science tools; experience with Recommender Systems is a plus.

• Required Skills (4 years of experience): Python (Scikit-learn PyTorch Tensorflow/Keras NumPy Pandas XGBoost) SQL A/B testing statistical modeling data visualization.

• Preferred Skills: Spark Apache Airflow AWS (S3 DynamoDB Lambda Kinesis SageMaker).

• You communicate cross-functionally and can take a data science project from inception research experimentation validation and deployment.

• You are passionate about inventing and applying advanced analytical and ML techniques to extract insights and solve business problems.

• You have experience developing large-scale data applications backed by relational and non-relational databases we utilize Kafka Java Python Postgres SQL K8s Jenkins and Airflow in AWS.

• Great communicator. You can distill a challenging problem into its essential elements and clearly communicate your vision and findings to the team.

• You have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Statistics Mathematics or equivalent work experience.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation packages with a salary bonuses and restricted stock grants.

• Generous benefits including paid vacation medical dental and vision insurance and fully paid family leave.

• A high-growth company providing opportunities for continued professional development and growth.

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Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce.

A diverse inclusive culture is vital to Redfins mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. Were proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.

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