Staff Machine Learning Engineer

About the Team

The Machine Learning Foundation team owns the frameworks and systems necessary to empower rapid and sustained iteration on Opendoor’s industry-leading models for pricing, risk, and macro forecasting in real estate. The ability to rapidly experiment and deploy models is central to Opendoor’s ability to thrive in a dynamic marketplace. This team will work with MLEs and Researchers to design and support next generation ML infrastructure.

Role Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and supporting a framework for the full ML lifecycle specialized to Opendoor’s unique requirements
• Maintaining and operating critical, large-scale ML pipelines such as Opendoor’s Valuation Model
• Productionizing and modernizing features, pipelines, and their store
• Integrating solutions with industry-standard ML PaaS such as MLFlow, Databricks, Anomalo, and Snowflake

Skills Needed:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of experience working with large-scale data / ML pipelines and their supporting infrastructure
• Proficiency with systems design and data modeling
• Fluency with workflow management tools, like Airflow or dbt
• Experience with modern data warehouses, like Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery
• Familiarity with distributed batch compute technologies such as Spark.
• Expertise breaking down complex problems, documenting solutions, and sequencing work to make iterative improvements
• Significant experience with Python
• Familiarity with software design principles, big data architecture, and test-driven development

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About Opendoor

Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to power life’s progress one move at a time. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple and certain. 

• To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website. 
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• Discover what we are building for our customers by reading our blog.

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