Job Details

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA; or Atlanta, GA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days.

Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team!

The Applied Machine Learning (AML) group at Redfin works towards redefining real estate in the customer's favor using machine learning. We work on foundational problems in the real estate space including recommendations (“Where should I live”) and price estimation (“How much is a home worth”). We have real estate data at a national level and work across various domains in machine learning using large-scale multi-modal property data (documents, images, text, video, 3d scans etc.). AML also owns and maintains end-to-end production-grade large-scale machine learning infrastructure and systems serving hundreds of millions of consumers.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for the Applied Machine Learning Team, your job is to ensure that our machine learning solutions are well-architected and performant enough to serve our 10M+ monthly active users. You will work with an experienced group of machine learning engineers and researchers with robust research to production culture.

The Role:

• You will help design and implement how our machine learning model development, training and inference platforms are automated and scalable.
• You will co-create the next generation of machine learning architecture for automated valuation and recommender systems.
• Dive deep into data to offer critical insights and execute on platform improvements.
• You will assist other engineers in their use of machine learning technologies at Redfin.
• You'll build products and tools that drive some of the company's most critical metrics and impact revenue growth. We are helping create the best possible home buying or selling experience, one feature at a time.

Who You Are:

• You have 5+ years of machine learning and software engineering experience, including experience with open-source ML; experience with Recommender Systems is a plus.
• Required Skills: Apache Airflow, AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, SageMaker), Python, Hive.
• Preferred Skills: Scikit-learn, Keras, Pandas, Spark, PostgreSQL.
• You communicate cross-functionally and can take a ML model through inception, research, training, testing, and production.
• You are passionate about inventing and applying ML techniques to automate routine Machine Learning tasks, such as model retraining.
• You have experience developing large scale applications backed by relational and non-relational databases - we utilize Kafka, Java, Python, Postgres, SQL, K8s, Jenkins, and Airflow in AWS.
• Great communicator. You can distill a challenging problem into its essential elements, and clearly communicate your vision to the team.
• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, providing timely support (approximately one week every 4-5 weeks).

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants.
• Generous benefits, including flexible paid vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and fully paid family leave.
• A high-growth company, providing opportunities for continued professional development and growth.

To make sure we hire the most qualified people, we've designed a multi-step selection process that may include interviews, a homework assignment, and a reference check. We're excited to get to know you and hope you're ready to give this opportunity everything you've got!

The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable disclosure requirements.

Base Pay Range: $164,300.00 - 225,500.00. Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including the position, location, individual qualifications, market finances, and other operational business needs. Compensation may also include bonuses and equity. We offer a generous benefits package including flexible vacation that supports the importance of time away from work for rest and relaxation, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick leave (accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked), medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Programs, and 401(k) employer match.

Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce.

A diverse, inclusive culture is vital to Redfin's mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. We're proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us, based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.

Redfin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you need accommodation in the application or recruitment process because of a disability or special need, please contact ...@redfin.com.

Redfin encourages individuals with criminal record histories to apply for employment and considers such individuals for employment consistent with the requirements of any applicable fair chance acts, including but not limited to the California, San Francisco and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Acts. Philadelphia applicants can access a copy of Philadelphia Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards ordinance poster here.

Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.