Applied Scientist- Intern, StreetEasy

Key Skills

AI technology, NumPy, Pandas, Python Programming, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, SciPy, TensorFlow

Job Description

StreetEasy is reimagining the way people buy, sell, and rent homes across New York City and New Jersey. Used more than any other local real estate platform, StreetEasy’s website and mobile apps provide vetted and verified listings, plus intuitive search tools and data-driven guides to help people unlock the opportunity of living in the world's greatest city.

The Data Product Team generates insights that help our customers navigate the complex New York City real estate market. We develop and maintain a diverse variety of production machine learning models, including property valuation, user propensity and segmentation, recommender systems, and experimentation.

About the role

We are seeking an inquisitive Applied Scientist intern who will help us develop creative solutions using machine learning to the broad business problems we are solving.

As an intern on you will get to:

• Efficiently collect and wrangle data in sophisticated formats from diverse sources to derive new insights around our real estate marketplace
• Develop and implement custom experiments with a focus on improving business-specific metrics
• Partner with our applied scientists, engineers and product managers to implement end-to-end workflows on industry best-practice machine learning infrastructure
• Communicate sophisticated machine learning analyses clearly to all audiences

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.

In Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New York City the standard base pay range for this role is $94,000.00 - $140,000.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New York City and may not be applicable to other locations.

Who you are

• In the process of completing a Master’s or PhD in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Economics, Real Estate or a related field
• Anticipated graduation date between December 2023 and June 2024
• Inclined to approach problems from a statistical perspective, with interest and comfort quantifying uncertainty.
• Experience with, or a desire to learn, probabilistic programming methods and tools e.g PyMC, Stan, NumPyro, Tensorflow-probability would be beneficial.
• You have proven data engineering skills as demonstrated by experience in SQL and preferably Python. Candidates with experience in R or another scientific computing language will also be considered.
• Passionate about learning new business domains, solving problems and presenting to and communicating with non-technical audiences.

Transferable Skills
Here at Zillow - we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

Get to know us

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