Applied Scientist

Zillow
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: mastersSkills: ["Clear communication","Stakeholder management","Methodological rigor","Independent problem ownership","Translating business questions into data plans"]

Own high-impact work improving the reliability and maintainability of Zillow’s published housing market metrics. Support recurring metric publication, investigate anomalies and suspected data outages, and strengthen data quality checks and monitoring for production metric pipelines. Partner with engineers on pipeline migrations and upstream dependency reduction, evaluating changes against historical baselines and communicating caveats, trade-offs, and impacts to stakeholders.

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Job Summary

Own high-impact work improving the reliability and maintainability of Zillow’s published housing market metrics. Support recurring metric publication, investigate anomalies and suspected data outages, and strengthen data quality checks and monitoring for production metric pipelines. Partner with engineers on pipeline migrations and upstream dependency reduction, evaluating changes against historical baselines and communicating caveats, trade-offs, and impacts to stakeholders.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Support recurring publication of housing metrics by monitoring outputs, validating changes, and resolving issues before downstream impact.
  • •Investigate metric anomalies, suspected bugs, and possible data outages 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 on pipeline migrations, reducing fragile upstream dependencies and improving reliability and maintainability.
  • •Evaluate and communicate the impact of upstream schema/logic/source changes against historical baselines, including caveats and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Key Requirements

  • •Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience, or PhD with 1+ years of experience, in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, data science, computer science, mathematics, engineering, or operations research.
  • •Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, window functions, aggregations, and debugging metric logic over large relational datasets.
  • •Strong Python skills for analytical development and validation tooling, including experience with PySpark or Spark for distributed data processing.
  • •Experience with Databricks (or similar) and production data workflows (scheduled jobs, warehouse-style tables).
  • •Experience investigating data quality issues or metric anomalies/bugs and turning findings into durable fixes for production systems.
Education:Master's in Statistics, economics, data science, computer science, mathematics, engineering, operations research, or a related quantitative field
Skills:Clear communicationStakeholder managementMethodological rigorIndependent problem ownershipTranslating business questions into data plans
Tech Stack:SQLPythonPySparkSparkDatabricksVersion controlCode reviewTestingValidation

Company Brief

Zillow
Operates an online real estate marketplace providing listings, valuation estimates, rentals, and agent tools. Connects buyers, sellers, renters, and real estate professionals with data-driven search, home Zestimate valuations, and advertising services.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2006
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