Data Scientist

Work in a fast growing startup with unlimited opportunity and lots of room for growth and advancement. We’re on a mission to simply residential real estate transactions nationwide by bringing world-class software, data science, and design to an age-old industry.

We’re seeking an exceptional Data Scientist to join us in building data products at the core of the company. We build valuation models, predictive modeling infrastructure, and lead growth experiments. Day to day, it’s a mix of machine learning, crowdsourcing, exploratory data analysis, feature extraction, and software engineering.

As a Data Scientist you will:

• Improve our industry-leading home valuation model using millions of real-estate transactions and complementary datasets.
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• Rapidly prototype features and predictive models.
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• Build ML pipelines in production.
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• Identify, research, and analyze new data sources to improve model accuracy.
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• Become a domain expert in real-estate.
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• Coordinate with product, engineering, and operations to understand impact and trade-offs of modeling improvements.
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We’re looking for teammates who bring:

• Commitment to rigorous analysis and production-quality code
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• Passion for building solid data infrastructure
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• A love of tackling complexity in real-world datasets such geo data and transaction data
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• Experience in one of Python, R, Java, Scala, Julia; if R or Julia, candidate must be able to make algorithms scale
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• Familiarity with basic classes of ML algorithms, concepts in feature extraction and selection
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• Ability and desire to communicate your analysis with clarity and precision
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• Resourcefulness and pragmatism
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Bonus points:

• Competition experience in data mining or machine learning
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• You love delighting customers with honest, transparent products and experiences
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