Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Homes.com

Overview

Job Description

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 is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20 years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry.

We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.

Learn more about Homes.com.

CoStar delivers real-time, verified real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar’s independent research organization – the industry’s largest – with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence.

Machine Learning Engineers at CoStar play an important role in this process, by mining data from sources including billions of pageviews, millions of images, vast geographic data, deep property content, and much more. We enhance our extensive property database, personalize our customers’ experience on our product websites, and create innovative datasets and forecasts that are the industry standards in our market leading products.

We are searching for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our collaborative group that includes a mix of big data, API, and full stack development teams. We are growing rapidly to help invent the future of Real Estate, with Data Science playing a critical role in that growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy scalable machine learning and statistical models to analyze large volumes of data.
• Perform extensive statistical analysis and translate results into actionable business insights for decision makers.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and leadership to answer business questions using big data.
• Automate data processing and manage data pipelines to ensure efficient data handling.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and gain a deep understanding of the CoStar business to identify improvement opportunities.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree from an accredited, non-profit university or college, preferably in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field. A PhD is highly desirable.
• A track record of commitment to previous employers.
• 2 years of professional experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist or in a related role for candidates with a PhD, or 5 years of experience for candidates with a Master’s degree.
• Extensive programming experience with Python and proficiency in machine learning and data science libraries such as scikit-learn, statsmodels, pandas and matplotlib.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
• Exceptional ability to translate data analysis results into actionable business insights.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data platforms and analytics technologies such as Snowflake and Databricks.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency with version control systems such as Git.
• Proficiency in shell scripting for automation and data pipeline tasks.
  
  

What’s In It For You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our Benefits Package Includes (but Is Not Limited To)

• 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
  
  

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing