Zillow Group
The Principal Applied Scientist (User Modeling) role focuses on building foundational AI technologies for Zillow's home shopping experiences, specifically developing user world models to understand shopper journeys and preferences. This position involves driving complex, end-to-end projects by collaborating with product, engineering, and data teams to translate advances in sequence modeling, causal inference, and reinforcement learning into production impact. The role requires technical leadership and mentorship while working on agentic skills across the full home-shopping journey at a massive scale.
Zillow is a consumer-facing online real estate marketplace that helps people search for homes to buy, sell and rent across the United States. The platform provides property listings, Zestimate home-value estimates, rental listings, mortgage tools and neighborhood data, plus mobile apps and alerts to simplify the housing journey. Zillow also offers services for real estate professionals and advertisers—like agent directories, lead tools and market analytics—and publishes research and news (Zillow Front Porch) about housing trends. It’s known for large-scale U.S. coverage, data-driven insights, and an easy-to-use search experience.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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