Zillow

Reimagining real estate to make it easier than ever to move from one home to the next.

Senior Applied Scientist, Forecasting

Research ScientistResearch ScientistFull TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2006H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 7 moreAll locations: California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington

Posted

29 days ago

Salary

$160.9K - $257.1K / year

Postgraduate Degree7 yrs expEnglishPythonSQL

Job Description

• Analyze large, complex datasets to understand buyer and seller behavior and uncover the drivers of key real estate and business outcomes. • Develop and deploy time‑series and econometric forecasting models that address critical customer, housing market, and business questions, without exposing proprietary product details. • Own the end‑to‑end modeling lifecycle, including scoping, feature engineering, model development, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and model explainability. • Translate forecasts into clear insights and recommendations for senior leadership, helping stakeholders understand drivers, uncertainty, and trade‑offs that guide Zillow’s strategy. • Partner cross‑functionally with finance, product, engineering, marketing, and operations to scale and improve forecasting capabilities across Zillow. • Improve and contribute to shared forecasting tools, data pipelines, and processes used across the company. • Collaborate with other applied scientists and data scientists to develop novel solutions to real estate and business problems.

Job Requirements

  • Strong experience with quantitative time‑series forecasting techniques and a practical understanding of trade‑offs between performance, explainability, and scalability.
  • Approximately 7+ years of applied data science experience, including substantial hands‑on work in forecasting, predictive modeling, or econometric analysis (industry or equivalent research experience).
  • Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g., Economics, Operations Research, Data Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Management, Engineering, or related quantitative discipline), or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proficient in Python and SQL for building, evaluating, and deploying models.
  • Demonstrated experience monitoring, debugging, and maintaining models in production environments.
  • Experience explaining complex models and analytical concepts to stakeholders with varied technical backgrounds, using clear takeaways, succinct insights, and effective visualizations.

Benefits

  • competitive base salary
  • equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location

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