Senior Applied Scientist, Agentic AI at Zillow

This role is for a PhD-level researcher with a strong track record in publishing and at least two years of experience building large-scale LLM reasoning systems or multi-agent environments. They want someone who can move past basic chatbots to build autonomous agents that can plan, negotiate, and execute complex real estate transactions. **What makes it worth a look...** Zillow is offering a rare chance to work on high-stakes "test-time scaling" and post-training research within a fully remote, top-tier tech company. The compensation is strong, reaching up to $257k plus equity, and you'll get to ship actual production-grade AI rather than just writing papers. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have a PhD focused on NLP, agentic systems, or specialized machine learning. * Have published research in top-tier AI venues like NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR. * Can develop LLMs capable of multi-step reasoning and tool-grounded execution. * Know how to design rigorous evaluation benchmarks for autonomous agents.