Data Scientist

About the Role

Were looking for an experienced Staff Research Scientist to push the boundaries of applied machine learning and AI at Opendoor. While this role will have a significant impact on our valuation systems ensuring we provide the most accurate and transparent pricing possible the scope goes well beyond pricing. Youll work across a range of challenging ML problems from multi-modal modeling to operational optimization helping us rethink how we use structured and unstructured data to make better decisions for our customers.

What Youll Need

Strong software engineering and coding skills in Python with experience contributing to production codebases

7 years of experience developing and deploying ML models end-to-end from research and prototyping to implementation in production systems

Hands-on experience with deep learning architectures including ConvNets Transformers or similar

Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science statistics mathematics or a related quantitative field

Solid foundation in statistics and experimental design

Strong communication and collaboration skills youre comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders and can communicate technical ideas clearly

Nice to Have

Familiarity with Pyspark and distributed data processing

Background in search recommendation systems or personalization

Experience working with large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs)

A genuine interest in real estate no prior experience required but youll engage deeply with housing data

What Youll Do

Design and deploy architectural improvements to our deep neural network (DNN)-based home valuation models

Build interpretable ML models that can help us explain pricing decisions to customers

Incorporate unstructured data like images videos or text into our forecasting and valuation pipelines using cutting-edge AI models (LLMs VLMs etc.)

Collaborate with Engineering and Ops to enhance our human-in-the-loop pricing systems

Improve the feature engineering and model training pipelines that power our production systems

Rethink our risk and optimization models using real-world data and domain insight

Were a small nimble team theres ample opportunity to work across the entire research and modeling stack.

Compensation

The base pay range for this positionis $00 annually plus RSUs and bonuses. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on your qualifications job-related knowledge skillsand experience. We also offer a comprehensive package of benefits including unlimited PTO medical / dental / vision insurance life insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

About us. Powering lifes progress one move at a time

Since 2014 weve been reinventing lifes most important transaction with a new simple way to buy and sell a home. The traditional real estate process is broken and our mission is clear : build a digital end-to-end experience that makes buying and selling a home simple and certain.

Were a team of problem solvers innovators and operators building the largest most trusted platform for residential real estate. Whether its starting a family taking a new job or making a life change we help people move forward with confidence.

This work isnt easy and its not for everyone. But if you want to be part of a team thats tilting the world in favor of people who want to sell buy or own a home then youll find purpose here.

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Key Skills

Laboratory Experience,Immunoassays,Machine Learning,Biochemistry,Assays,Research Experience,Spectroscopy,Research & Development,cGMP,Cell Culture,Molecular Biology,Data Analysis Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 197000 - 271700