Zillow

Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI

Remote-USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$161k-$257kDetected 27 days ago

Machine LearningNLPLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingCustomer SupportResearchExperimental DesignCollaborationPublic Speaking

About the role

In this role, you'll take a hands-on approach to prototyping, evaluating, and deploying agents capable of deep, multi-step reasoning, accurate use of tools/skills, and contextual decision-making tailored to real estate use cases.
As a Senior Applied Scientist in the Agentic AI team, you will:
The Agentic AI team at Zillow is transforming the real estate industry by helping millions of people navigate one of the most important decisions of their lives with AI powered guidance.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation.
Zillow is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist on the Applied Reasoning team within the Agentic AI organization to research and develop advanced LLM-powered reasoning systems specialized in the real estate domain.
Design, prototype, and build advanced agentic systems capable of highly autonomous, context-aware, and adaptive interactions across diverse real estate use cases
Apply test-time scaling and post-training techniques to develop agents that can reason, collaborate, compete, or negotiate in dynamic, goal-driven environments to fulfill user needs.
We build high-value agentic capabilities that require multi-step reasoning, structured synthesis, tool grounded execution, and rigorous quality evaluation to operate reliably in live customer experiences.

2+ years of experience in building large-scale, high-impact ML solutions, particularly in areas such as NLP, agent-based systems, or multi-agent collaboration or similar paradigms
Track record of publishing high-impact research in top AI/ML venues

In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $160,900.00 - $257,100.00 annually.
The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.

Our mission is to redefine the home shopping and transaction experience through an always-on assistant that combines deep real estate expertise, grounded data access, and advanced reasoning.
This lean, cross-functional team of applied scientists and engineers delivers production-grade AI systems through strong collaboration, accountability, and technical rigor.
Within the Agentic AI org, the Applied Reasoning team advances the reasoning depth, quality, and domain intelligence of Zillow's AI agents.
Our goal is to enable Zillow's AI to reason, plan, and act with the depth and judgment of top-performing real estate professionals.

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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