Zillow is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for the Agentic AI team to develop advanced multimodal customer experiences. They will be hands-on in prototyping ideas, training models, evaluating, and deploying them to Zillow's highly scalable infrastructure platforms. They’ll be building vision and language understanding models with deep reasoning and reinforcement learning to handle AI agent decision-making.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Agentic AI team, you will:
Leverage agentic frameworks like Agents SDK, or LangGraph to design, prototype, and develop multi-agent systems that are capable of highly autonomous and context-aware interactions
Leverage frontier GenAI models, including vision, language, and voice models, to build agentic prototypes and later convert them into agentic products for millions of Zillow customers.
Exploit a highly scalable platform for training and fine-tuning OSS models to adapt them to the real estate domain.
Mentor and guide other engineers and partners in using the right technologies for agentic AI solutions, and foster a culture of innovation and responsible AI usage
Distill complex research findings collected through surveys and AI model architectures into actionable insights for diverse audiences—including executives
Remain on the cutting edge of agentic AI emerging paradigms, implement papers with code, and drive product innovation
Serve as the focal point for projects, independently driving alignment on timelines and prioritization
Continuously refine processes for experimentation, A/B testing, and production rollouts to balance rapid innovation with reliability and responsible deployment.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you are a roll-up-the-sleeves and get-it-done engineer who can marry state-of-the-art technology with large-scale engineering. We are looking for someone who has:
A master's degree or above, equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with emphasis on building products using frontier multimodal LLMs
Expertise in agentic AI, pretraining, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning of vision, language, and voice models
7+ years of hands-on work building large-scale, high-impact solutions—ideally in the most recent two years building agent-based systems, multi-agent collaboration, or similar paradigms
Experience developing engaging dialogue systems capable of long conversations, multi-step reasoning, and context-rich decision-making
Experience deploying and scaling AI services capable of handling hundreds of millions of daily interactions with high availability, low latency, and robust fault tolerance
A track record of writing articles and publishing high-impact research in top AI conferences is a big plus.
Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.
As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.
Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
Applicants who receive job offers from Zillow Group will be asked to sign a Proprietary Rights Agreement which includes confidentiality, intellectual property assignment, customer and employee non-solicitation, and non-competition provisions. If you are contacted for a role at Zillow Group and wish to review a copy of the Proprietary Rights Agreement prior to receiving an offer, you may request a copy from your Recruiter.
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