Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Zillow, Inc. seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Seattle, WA. Job duties include creating an engaging experience using language models to guide and understand customer queries. Learn from customer data and build ranking models to create a personalized search experience. Use vector embedding search and information retrieval techniques to find relevant data. Scale the systems to handle a high volume of searcher daily and be highly performant. Manage cost vs performance tradeoffs and make the systems operationally efficient. Collaborate with applied scientists and engineers to architect using the right models and tools. Share knowledge and effectively communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences. Serve as the focal point for science projects, coordinating deliverables, writing papers, modeling, authoring designs, and creating science plans. Build ML/AI systems for search advanced information retrieval, ranking, or recommender systems. Deploy highly scalable, business-critical ML models in production. Utilize Kubernetes-based tools for machine learning. Build fine-tuned language models for solving domain-specific problems. Telecommuting is permitted.

Minimum requirements: Master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field and two (2) years of experience in any occupation in which the required experience was gained. Special skills: Two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

• Developing and deploying machine learning models in production environment.
• Python programming with machine learning framework.
• Information retrieval and search algorithms.
• Natural language processing and transformer architecture.
• Building and optimizing large-scale distributed search and ranking systems.
• LLM and vector database.

Any suitable combination of education, training and experience is acceptable. Salary: $168,600 - $269,400 per year. Medical, dental, vision, & basic life insurance, 401K, PTO & holidays. Stock purchase, annual bonuses & profit sharing. 40 hours per week. EOE.