Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Homes.com)

$142,000 - $204,000/Yr

CoStar Group - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Real Estate

About the position

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives. Homes.com, a CoStar Group company, is one of the fastest-growing real estate portals in the industry, driven to be #1. With over 20 years of experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces, Homes.com is building a brand poised to define the industry. We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our collaborative team, which includes a mix of big data, API, and full-stack development teams. This position is critical as we continue to enhance our extensive property database, personalize customer experiences, and create innovative datasets and forecasts that set industry standards. The role is based in Washington, D.C., and offers a hybrid schedule of three days onsite and two days remote. As a Machine Learning Engineer at CoStar, you will play a vital role in mining data from various sources, including billions of pageviews, millions of images, and vast geographic data. You will collaborate on the continued improvement of CoStar's cloud-based machine learning environment, designing, building, training, deploying, and evaluating machine learning models that handle large amounts of data. You will work closely with other engineers, product owners, and leadership to create ML solutions that solve practical problems and enhance our customers' experiences. Understanding the CoStar business and how machine learning can improve operations will be essential to your success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the continued improvement of CoStar's cloud-based machine learning environment.
• Design, build, train, deploy, and evaluate machine learning models that handle large amounts of data.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and leadership to create ML solutions that solve practical problems and improve our customer's experience.
• Gain an understanding of the CoStar business and how ML can improve things.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college, preferably in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• A master's or PhD is highly desirable.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist or in a related role for candidates with a master's or bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of experience for candidates with a PhD.
• Extensive programming experience with Python and proficiency in ML libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn.
• Experience of deploying end-to-end at-scale ML solutions using cloud-based architectures, including data ingestion, model training, model evaluation, and inference pipelines.
• Strong understanding of fundamental machine learning concepts and ability to devise custom approaches to solve practical problems using machine learning.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong domain expertise in natural language processing.
• Experience with AI engineering using proprietary or open source LLMs, including the use of tools such as HuggingFace.
• Experience with databases, such as DynamoDB, and cloud ML platforms, such as Databricks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks