As the engine behind Zillow Groups mission to build a seamless digital real estate marketplace, the Shopping AI team is fundamentally redefining how millions of people discover and shop for homes.

Company: Zillow

Role: Machine Learning Engineer, Zillow Shopping AI

Location: Remote

Experience:

1-3 years of experience in developing applications in search, personalized ranking, or recommender systems
Experience developing and deploying ML models that scale to high-traffic, latency sensitive customer-facing services (100s of millions of requests per day)
Experience owning the full lifecycle of customer facing machine learning models, from offline experimentation and prototyping to online deployment, A/B testing, and performance monitoring

Key Skills:

Python
Java
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Catboost
scikit-learn
huggingface (repository)
Hive
Spark
Airflow
Databricks

Qualification:

Masters degree + 2 yrs or BS with a minimum of 4 yrs of experience (preferably in large consumer tech companies)

Role Focus:

Design, build, and ship production new machine learning models that power core product features on the Zillow app, website, and email/push notifications
Help re-architect our core home ranking and recommendation systems to support advanced neural networks and dramatically accelerate the pace of experimentation across surfaces
Own the full lifecycle of your models, from offline experimentation and prototyping with massive datasets to online deployment, A/B testing, and performance monitoring
Pioneer the application of cutting-edge deep learning and large language models (LLMs) to improve our home shopping experience
Develop new AI components that optimize how we display and when we recommend homes, ensuring we connect shoppers with the right content on the right properties at the right time
Collaborate in a cross-functional group of engineers, applied scientists, product managers, and designers to define, execute, and iterate on the teams strategic roadmap
Contribute to the teams engineering excellence by improving our machine learning infrastructure, development standards, and shared tooling

Nice to have:

Prior experience or high level of curiosity with generative AI and excitement to collaborate on what they’ve learned

Other:

In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $145,500.00 - $232,500.00 annually
In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont the standard base pay range is $138,300.00 - $220,900.00
Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside
This position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location
Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care 2025 list

Machine Learning Engineer, Zillow Shopping AI

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