Currently tracking 28 active AI roles, down 34% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $104k–$432k (avg $205k).
Zillow has 38 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 66%, are focused on agents. Engineering is the dominant function, with 26 roles. Frequent tech tags include agent_orchestration, evals, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI agents. In the last 30 days, Zillow posted 16 new AI roles, representing a 220% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Zillow currently has 34 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI (2), Senior Data Scientist (2), Senior Machine Learning Engineer (2), Applied Scientist, Forecasting, Applied Scientist, New Construction. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Zillow's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (65%), application (24%), serving infrastructure (6%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Zillow is hiring AI talent in: United States (26 roles), Mexico (6 roles), India (1 role), Germany (1 role).
Job postings at Zillow most frequently reference: agent orchestration, model serving, llm observability, evals, tool use.
In the past 30 days, Zillow has posted 6 new AI-related roles. That is a -65% change versus the prior 30 days (17 → 6).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Agentic AI team at Zillow, focused on developing large-scale, fault-tolerant multimodal agentic experiences for millions of customers. The role involves designing interaction modes (Voice AI, Deep Research), pioneering evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and safety guardrails, and converting emerging agentic paradigms into product innovation. It requires leading complex initiatives, bridging research and engineering, and distilling complex findings for diverse audiences. | Agent | 9 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI Principal Machine Learning Engineer on the Agentic AI team to develop large-scale, fault-tolerant multimodal agentic experiences, design agent interaction modes (Voice AI, Deep Research), pioneer evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and safety guardrails, and lead multi-team initiatives bridging research and engineering. | Agent |
| 9 |
| Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI Principal Applied Scientist role focused on RL post-training for production models. Leads design and deployment of learning systems to shape model behavior, aligning with user value, safety, and business objectives. Involves supervised fine-tuning, preference modeling, RL-based alignment (RLHF, RLAIF, DPO), reward model development, and translating data into training signals. Partners with model/platform teams on training/evaluation efficiency and mentors other scientists. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI Senior Applied Scientist on the Agentic AI team at Zillow, focusing on researching and developing advanced LLM-powered reasoning systems for real estate. The role involves prototyping, evaluating, and deploying agents capable of deep, multi-step reasoning, accurate tool use, and contextual decision-making, with a focus on improving reliability and quality through evaluation frameworks and post-training techniques. | Agent | 9 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI The Principal Machine Learning Engineer on the Agentic AI team at Zillow will develop advanced multimodal foundational technologies, focusing on prototyping, evaluating, and deploying models into production. This role involves building multi-agent systems with deep reasoning, perception, and language understanding capabilities, leveraging frameworks like AgentSDK and LangChain/LangGraph. The engineer will also work with GenAI models, real-time voice APIs, and ensure high availability and low latency for AI services. | Agent | 9 |
| Principal Product Technologist This role focuses on building and iterating on AI-powered tools and capabilities to improve Zillow's product development lifecycle. The technologist will design and develop systems that help product teams discover knowledge, run experiments, and make decisions faster, collaborating with data science and engineering teams to scale these capabilities. The role emphasizes influencing technical architecture and translating organizational challenges into scalable technical solutions, with a focus on agentic architectures and LLM orchestration. | Agent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer role focused on productionizing ML models for rich media experiences, including data pipelines, model training, deployment, and monitoring. The role involves transitioning research code to production-ready systems and exposing ML models to end customers. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer Principal Machine Learning Engineer to set technical direction and architect/ship large-scale agentic data platform capabilities, including context engineering, agentic memory, and AI workflows. Role involves leading cross-organization execution, mentoring engineers, and ensuring production-grade defaults like observability and evaluation. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI Services Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of backend and AI systems, focusing on integrating AI/ML/LLM capabilities into production services. The role involves building pipelines, services, and evaluation frameworks, and defining system-wide standards for AI-powered features. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Applied Scientist, New Construction The Shopping AI team at Zillow is looking for an Applied Scientist to drive the next generation of ranking, recommendation, and generative AI systems for Zillow's home-shopping experience. This role involves researching, designing, and deploying innovative machine learning models, including LLM-based retrieval and RAG-style systems, to improve user discovery and interaction with homes. The scientist will lead the full model lifecycle from ideation to deployment and monitoring, collaborating with cross-functional teams and leveraging large-scale data systems. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI Machine Learning Engineer on the Agentic AI team, focusing on designing, building, and productionizing domain-specialized AI capabilities for Zillow's real estate experiences. The role involves advancing multi-step reasoning, structured synthesis, and tool-grounded intelligence for AI agents operating in live customer environments. | Agent | 8 |
| Applied Scientist, Forecasting Applied Scientist role focused on designing, evaluating, and deploying statistical, econometric, and machine learning methods for forecasting problems within Zillow. The role involves the end-to-end modeling lifecycle, from data engineering and feature creation to model deployment, monitoring, and explainability, with a strong emphasis on translating forecasts into actionable business insights and recommendations for senior leadership. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and improvement of shared forecasting tools and data pipelines are also key responsibilities. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, Product Development Acceleration Lead and build AI-enabled tools that help teams learn faster and make better product decisions. Architect, build, and iterate AI-native tools using modern AI coding environments and agentic frameworks. Focus on responsible AI and data privacy. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI Services Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling end-to-end intelligent systems that power personalized experiences and Home Details Page (HDP) capabilities. The role involves working with scalable backend services and applied AI/ML systems, including data pipelines, LLM/ML-powered capabilities, evaluation frameworks, and AI-driven workflows. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines, developing and integrating ML/LLM capabilities, designing prompts and evaluation systems, and translating prototypes into production-hardened systems. The role operates at the intersection of backend services and applied AI/ML, aiming to turn user intent into intelligence and scale AI capabilities across the shopper journey. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Rich Media Experiences Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and operate production-grade ML systems for rich media experiences, focusing on transforming sensor data into floor plans and 3D representations for customer-facing products. The role involves end-to-end ML lifecycle management, including data, training, evaluation, deployment, and observability, with a focus on computer vision and spatial signals. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer to anchor the Agentic Data Foundations team, responsible for designing and building scalable, robust foundational infrastructure that empowers AI teams. The role involves architecting, deploying, and optimizing ML infrastructure, serving as a liaison between data platforms and applied AI teams, and mentoring engineers. Requires strong experience in ML fundamentals, agentic patterns, and large-scale data/ML infrastructure. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr. Applied Scientist Senior Applied Scientist role focused on building and scaling ML-driven routing and allocation decision systems for Zillow's core marketplace. The role involves full lifecycle ownership of models, balancing customer experience with business value, and ensuring reliability, observability, and explainability in production systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist, Rich Media Experiences Senior Applied Scientist role focused on developing and deploying machine learning and computer vision models for Zillow's rich media experiences, specifically for virtual home tours. The role involves framing and solving perception problems, building and iterating on models, developing evaluation pipelines, integrating models into production, and mentoring team members. Experience with real-world data, Python, deep learning frameworks, and shipping production ML systems is required. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Zillow Shopping AI Machine Learning Engineer at Zillow Shopping AI to build and own production ML systems for core user experiences like ranking, recommendations, search, and autocomplete. The role involves designing, building, and shipping new ML models, re-architecting ranking systems, owning the full model lifecycle, and pioneering generative AI/LLM applications. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and contribution to ML infrastructure are also key. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Development Engineer, iOS Software Development Engineer, iOS, focused on building and improving Zillow's iOS design system and reusable components. The role involves contributing to the implementation and architecture of design system features, ensuring quality and consistency across Zillow's mobile experiences. It also requires thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools and collaboration with design, product, and engineering partners. | — | 5 |
| Software Development Engineer, Big Data Software Development Engineer on the Agentic Enablement team, responsible for building reusable data platforms and pipelines that power AI use cases across Zillow. This role focuses on data engineering for AI, enabling AI teams to deliver next-generation customer experiences by providing scalable data foundations. | Data | 5 |
| Senior AI-Native Product Engineer, Full Stack Senior AI-Native Product Engineer role at Zillow focused on building systems that connect customers with real estate agents, manage agent businesses, and shape customer experiences. The role involves full-stack development, product shaping, and shipping measurable products. It emphasizes using AI-assisted development tools. | — | 5 |
| Mobile AI-Native Product Engineer Mobile Product Engineer role focused on building and improving customer experiences for Zillow's touring platform across iOS and Android. The role involves turning ambiguous ideas into shipped features, partnering with cross-functional teams, and utilizing AI-assisted development tools. Emphasis on end-to-end ownership, quality, and using production signals for iteration. | — | 5 |
| Data & AI Operations Manager This role focuses on leveraging data and automation, specifically AI-enabled workflows using tools like OpenAI Agent Builder and low-code platforms, to improve efficiency within Zillow's Legal & Compliance department. The manager will own the design, build, and iteration of these workflows, including evaluation, integration into reporting, and piloting new AI capabilities. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Business Intelligence Engineer This role focuses on building and scaling the business intelligence and analytics engineering practice at Zillow. The Principal BI Engineer will design semantic layer architecture, ensure data consistency across BI, data science, and AI tools, and influence data infrastructure and tooling decisions. The role involves deep technical expertise, strategic vision, and cross-functional influence to support AI-powered analytics and business decision-making. | — | 5 |
| Senior Research Technologist The role focuses on building and scaling infrastructure for testing agentic AI experiences with real users before they reach production. It involves treating testing infrastructure as a product, defining standards for pre-production testing, and partnering across teams to translate testing needs into practical systems and workflows. The goal is to accelerate product development by improving the speed and repeatability of pre-production AI testing. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior AI-Native Product Engineer, Mobile Senior Mobile Product Engineer role focused on building and shipping AI-native mobile experiences across Zillow's web, iOS, and Android products. The role involves taking ambiguous ideas to shippable products, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and iterating based on production data. While AI tools are used for development, the engineer remains accountable for the final product quality and customer experience. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering Senior Manager of Software Development Engineering to lead frontend engineers on the Agentic Experience team, focusing on the UX of Zillow's AI Mode across web, iOS, and Android. This role involves managing a team, evolving the UX for AI Mode, coaching engineers, and partnering with product, design, and AI/ML teams to deliver integrated agentic experiences. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer, CoreTech Senior Software Development Engineer role focused on Zillow's CoreTech, specifically the Developer Experience Delivery Engineering team. The role involves designing, building, and operating CI/CD platforms, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and developer tools. A key aspect is applying AI to improve platform operations, triage, and decision-making, as well as optimizing developer productivity. The role requires expertise in cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and practical experience with AI in engineering workflows. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Security Engineer This Principal Security Engineer role focuses on embedding security into Zillow's applications, cloud environments, and AI-enabled systems. The role involves leading security assessments, identifying vulnerabilities, strengthening cloud security, and driving AI security initiatives by establishing guardrails and secure design patterns for AI systems. It also includes assessing AI-specific risks like data exposure and model abuse, and improving AI security tooling. | Agent | 5 |
| Director, Engineering - Listings and Evaluation Director of Engineering leading teams focused on Zillow's For Sale Home Details Page and listing evaluation experiences. The role involves shaping customer-facing products that leverage listing data, media, personalization, and AI capabilities to help customers understand and evaluate homes. It requires strong technical judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional partnership to drive engineering strategy and execution for AI-powered shopping and evaluation experiences. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist to build and scale machine learning and decision systems for Zillow's marketplace, focusing on routing, allocation, and model evaluation to improve transparency, fairness, and reliability. | AgentEval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Big Data Senior Software Engineer to build the next generation of Zillow's analytics and insights platform, focusing on AI-powered analytical experiences and AI-enabled workflows. The role involves developing systems for data discovery, understanding, and usage, and applying LLMs to improve usability and productivity within product and developer workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at Zillow supporting customer communication platforms. Responsibilities include leading the design, development, and maintenance of WBR dashboards, analyzing complex datasets for performance insights, designing and executing A/B tests, building basic predictive or heuristic models for personalization and governance, and collaborating with data engineering and product teams. The role requires strong statistical concepts, experimental design, A/B testing, causal inference, SQL, Python/R, and data visualization tools. | Ship | 5 |
| Client Engineer Client Engineer role focused on supporting, maintaining, and advancing internal collaboration and productivity platforms. Responsibilities include technical support, automation scripting, configuration, optimization, and staying updated on industry trends, including AI tools. The role emphasizes user experience and collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Principal Data Scientist - Rentals Shopping Principal Data Scientist to lead data science for Zillow's Rentals Shopping pillar, focusing on improving how renters discover and secure homes. The role involves driving data strategy, elevating modeling and experimentation practices, and applying AI (LLMs, agentic workflows) to enhance data science velocity and scale intelligent solutions. Key responsibilities include leading analytical work on search relevance, ranking, personalization, and marketplace efficiency, and designing A/B tests. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer, Android Senior Software Development Engineer, Android, to help shape the design system that powers Zillow's Android experience. Build reusable components, frameworks, and tooling that improve quality, consistency, and developer velocity across mobile teams. Influence how Android products are built at scale, including through thoughtful use of AI-enabled development tools, while raising the bar on engineering excellence across the product lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Software Development Engineer Software Engineer on the Vendor Backoffice team building B2B SaaS platforms for real estate agents, brokers, and vendors, owning foundational systems like vendor onboarding, billing, roster management, and public APIs. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer Senior Software Development Engineer on the Tenant Management team to build the next phase of Zillow Rental Manager, expanding it into a property management platform. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services for rent collection, operator finances, and tenant communication workflows, with a focus on a customer-facing payments experience processing millions of dollars daily. The engineer will lead a new backend integration, improve system performance and scalability, and optimize data models. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analyst, Financial Systems This role is for a Senior Analyst, Financial Systems at Zillow, focusing on improving financial forecasting within the Anaplan platform. Responsibilities include configuring, coding, testing, and debugging Anaplan applications, building and optimizing enterprise planning models, architecting data integration pipelines between Anaplan and other systems like Databricks, and driving technical design and UAT. The role requires strong Anaplan technical expertise, integration and data engineering skills, and financial planning experience. | — | 0 |
| Event Technician Audio Visual This role provides AV support for on-site and hybrid events, acting as a liaison between AV Engineering and Workplace teams. Responsibilities include setting up, operating, and troubleshooting audiovisual systems, performing routine testing, and training teammates on AV equipment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analyst, Industry & Marketplace Strategy This role focuses on building and owning datasets related to MLS feeds, broker feeds, and marketplace data. The analyst will analyze listing behavior and brokerage dynamics, support strategic initiatives, and develop reporting to inform decision-making. The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in SQL, and experience with analytics tools. While AI-assisted tools are mentioned as a way to accelerate analysis, the core function of the role is data analysis and strategy, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Frontend Software Development Engineer - Mexico Frontend Software Development Engineer role at Zillow, focusing on building and maintaining web applications using React, Typescript, and GraphQL. The role involves end-to-end project delivery, feature design, code review, and mentoring junior engineers. It requires strong skills in modern front-end technologies and fluency in English and Spanish. | — | 0 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager, Industry Software This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager within Zillow's Industry Software organization, which builds B2B SaaS platforms and products for real estate professionals. The role focuses on leading complex, cross-organizational initiatives, translating strategy into execution, and driving alignment across Product, Engineering, and Design teams to deliver measurable outcomes in areas like identity, access, monetization, and internal tooling. It requires strong technical program management experience, familiarity with B2B SaaS, and the ability to structure ambiguous environments and influence stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Title Review Specialist This role is responsible for reviewing U.S. residential title commitments and related title documents to assess and mitigate collateral and lien risk for Zillow Home Loans. The specialist will ensure clear, insurable title and appropriate lien position, working closely with the processing team and tangential to underwriting. The role focuses on quality, efficiency, and process discipline, aiming to streamline mortgage operations and reduce post-close defects. It also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to building a new capability by surfacing defect patterns and participating in knowledge sharing. | — | 0 |
| Senior Full Stack Software Development Engineer Senior Full Stack Software Development Engineer role at Zillow, focusing on building and evolving customer-facing product experiences and supporting systems using PHP, React, and TypeScript. The role involves leading end-to-end projects, API design, code review, mentoring, and working with event-driven architectures and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Ads and Marketing Data Science This role leads a team of data scientists focused on marketing analytics, including Marketing Mix Modeling, incrementality testing, attribution, and performance analytics. The team builds and maintains measurement frameworks, causal models, and analytical infrastructure to inform marketing budget allocation, channel strategy, and growth planning. The role requires deep technical expertise in marketing measurement and causal inference, as well as people leadership skills to build and manage a high-performing team. | — | 0 |
| Senior ServiceNow Developer Senior ServiceNow Developer role focused on designing, developing, and supporting internal enterprise applications and tools to improve employee efficiency and productivity. Responsibilities include setting engineering standards, mentoring teammates, designing integrations, and improving engineering practices through automation and DevOps principles within the ServiceNow ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Manager, IT This role is for a Manager, IT End-User Support at Zillow, responsible for leading a team that provides technology support to employees. The focus is on managing incident and service request workflows, improving service desk processes, and ensuring a seamless technology experience for employees. It involves leading, coaching, and developing a team, acting as a technical escalation point, and partnering with cross-functional IT teams. | — | 0 |
| Principal Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist to lead measurement strategy for Zillow's Elevate on-site advertising platform. This role focuses on defining measurement, leading experimentation, and building KPI frameworks to connect ad performance to advertiser outcomes and revenue growth. The role involves partnering with various teams, translating data into insights, and collaborating with external vendors. Experience in data science, marketing science, advertising analytics, and measurement is required, along with strong SQL and Python/R skills. | — | 0 |