Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI

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🏄 California, Colorado, +15 more states – Remote

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💵 $181.8k - $305.7k / year

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Zillow

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2006

🏠 Real Estate

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 $4.1M Post-IPO Equity on 2012-12

Real Estate • eCommerce • B2C

Zillow is a leading real estate and property rental marketplace that provides comprehensive information on homes, apartments, and properties for sale or rent. It offers users tools to search for properties, calculate mortgage rates, and connect with real estate agents. The platform also features innovative algorithms that provide Zestimates, which are estimated market values of homes. Zillow is a go-to resource for individuals looking to buy, sell, or rent properties, as well as for agents and brokers who want to reach a wider audience.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the end-to-end applied science strategy for advanced reasoning and long-running agent systems • Balance innovation, customer value, reliability, safety, and business priorities • Advance agent capabilities through agent architecture and harness design, context and memory engineering, test-time scaling, post-training, evaluation, and data flywheel • Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks for agentic systems, including task- and trajectory-level evaluation, long-horizon benchmarks, controlled experiments, ablation studies, and online measurement • Influence senior and executive stakeholders through scientific insights, technical trade-offs, risks, and recommendations • Stay at the forefront of research in agentic AI and foundation models • Represent Zillow’s work through publications, conference presentations, open-source contributions, patents, and external technical engagement • Partner with applied scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, product leaders, and senior stakeholders to shape the science roadmap and product strategy

🎯 Requirements

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience demonstrating comparable technical expertise and impact • 8+ years of industry experience building and deploying large-scale, high-impact AI systems • Deep expertise in large language models and agentic AI • Experience turning research ideas into reliable customer-facing systems • Experience developing AI agents with multi-step reasoning, long-running execution, and proactive behavior • Extensive hands-on experience with agent architecture and harness design, context and memory engineering, test-time scaling, and post-training • Extensive experience establishing rigorous evaluation frameworks for complex AI systems, including benchmark design, experimentation, reliability measurement, and end-to-end impact measurement • Proven track record leading complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from scientific framing and prototyping through production deployment, monitoring, and measurable customer or business impact • Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, and ability to influence science, engineering, product, and executive audiences • Science leadership demonstrated through high-impact production systems, patents, publications, open-source contributions, conference presentations, or equivalent industry impact

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location • Flexible distributed work model through Zillow’s Cloud HQ • Inclusive, innovative, and engaging culture • Opportunities for employees to grow • Equal employment opportunity and disability or special-needs accommodation