Applied Scientist

About the role

The Housing Trends Metrics and Forecasting team builds and maintains the data pipelines, metric definitions, and analytical methods behind Zillow’s housing market reporting, internal business metrics, forecasting, and market intelligence products.

What you'll do

• Own scoped, high-impact work that improves the reliability, quality, and maintainability of Zillow’s published housing metrics
• Support recurring publication of housing metrics by monitoring outputs, validating changes, and resolving issues before they affect downstream consumers
• Investigate metric anomalies, suspected bugs, and possible data outages by tracing issues across source data, transformation logic, and publication workflows
• Design and implement stronger data quality checks, validation workflows, and monitoring patterns for production metric pipelines
• Partner with engineers to migrate pipelines, reduce fragile upstream dependencies, and improve system reliability and maintainability

What you need

• 3–6 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Python
• Spark
• Statistics
• Databricks
• ETL
• PhD

Good to have

• Financial analysis