Zillow Group
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Remote-USA · Senior
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About the role
- As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Agentic Artificial Intelligence team, you will get to:
- Pioneer robust evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and safety guardrails to ensure our highly-visible AI agents remain trustworthy and responsible
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop multiple agent interaction modes, including Voice AI and Deep Research.
- Develop large-scale, fault-tolerant multimodal agentic experiences that reach millions of customers
- Lead complex, multi-team initiatives, bridging the gap between applied research and highly scalable engineering
- Distill complex research findings and AI system architectures into actionable insights for a diverse audience, including executives and cross-functional partner teams
- Experience developing engaging dialogue systems capable of long conversations, context-aware tool selection, and compliant response generation
- Experience building AI services capable of handling hundreds of millions of daily interactions with high availability, low latency, and robust fault tolerance
Requirements
- A master's degree or above, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with emphasis on building products using frontier multimodal LLMs
- 5+ years of experience with a proven track record of deploying large-scale ML models, with the most recent 2-3 years building agent-based systems, multi-agent collaboration, or similar paradigms
- Familiarity with various agentic AI frameworks, such as LangGraph, Agents SDK, AutoGen, and production ML infrastructure
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams and present to executive leadership
Nice to have
- A track record of writing articles, patents, and publishing high-impact research is a strong plus
Compensation
- In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $171,700.00 - $274,300.00 annually.
- The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.
Benefits
- In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Company info
- We aim to redefine the home shopping and transaction experience by providing an always-on assistant that integrates personalized user insights with Zillow's knowledge.
- This lean, customer-focused team of engineers independently ships features and has the autonomy to move fast and make decisions.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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