Sr Machine Learning Engineer, Customer

he intelligence behind our search ranking and relevance models, leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to improve how users interact with our platform. If you're passionate about applied AI, big data, and building cutting-edge ML solutions that have real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!

Three Reasons to Apply:

• Opportunity to transform real estate search using cutting-edge ML techniques

• Work on high-impact projects serving millions of users daily

• Collaborate across teams to shape innovative search-driven experiences

What You'll Do:

• Transform Search with ML - Design, build, and optimize machine learning models that power our core search ranking and relevance systems, ensuring users find the most relevant listings effortlessly.

• Enhance Personalization - Develop advanced recommendation algorithms to tailor search results based on user behavior, preferences, and intent.

• Build Data Pipelines at Scale - Create and optimize ETL pipelines to process massive datasets, making real-time search intelligence possible.

• Leverage the Latest in AI - Apply state-of-the-art techniques in NLP, deep learning, and reinforcement learning to enhance search relevance, query understanding, and ranking.

• Deploy & Optimize in Production - Take ML models from experimentation to production using AWS, Docker, and scalable distributed systems.

• Collaborate Across Teams - Work closely with engineering, product, and data science teams to define new search-driven experiences and ensure seamless deployment of ML solutions.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

What You'll Bring:

• Expertise in ML & Search - PhD/MS in computer science, statistics, mathematics, operations research or related fields and 2 years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning or applied statistics, with a strong background in information retrieval, search ranking, recommendation systems, or related ML applications.

• Extensive Technical Skills - Proficiency in Python, Spark, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and SQL. Experience with large-scale distributed systems is a plus.

• Production ML Experience - Hands-on experience deploying ML models at scale using cloud platforms like AWS, Kubernetes, or similar.

• Strong Creative Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills - Passion for tackling complex search and ranking challenges, improving user experience, and driving measurable impact.

• Excellent Communication - Ability to articulate ML concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com®, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.