Principal Machine Learning Engineer

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Principal ML Engineer building Zillow’s multimodal AI agents for real estate customers. Developing Voice AI, Deep Research, evaluation frameworks, and scalable agent infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop large-scale, fault-tolerant multimodal agentic experiences reaching millions of customers
  • Design and develop agent interaction modes including Voice AI and Deep Research
  • Pioneer evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and safety guardrails for trustworthy and responsible AI agents
  • Track emerging agentic paradigms and convert them into product innovation
  • Lead complex, multi-team initiatives connecting applied research with scalable engineering
  • Distill research findings and AI system architectures into actionable insights for executives and cross-functional teams

Requirements:

  • Master's degree or above, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • Emphasis on building products using frontier multimodal LLMs
  • 5+ years of experience deploying large-scale ML models
  • Most recent 2–3 years building agent-based systems, multi-agent collaboration, or similar paradigms
  • Experience developing dialogue systems capable of long conversations, context-aware tool selection, and compliant response generation
  • Experience building AI services handling hundreds of millions of daily interactions with high availability, low latency, and robust fault tolerance
  • Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, Agents SDK, and AutoGen
  • Familiarity with production ML infrastructure
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical direction across teams and present to executive leadership
  • Articles, patents, or high-impact research publications are a strong plus

Benefits:

  • Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location
  • Remote work with no permanent corporate office workplace
  • Equal employment opportunity and disability accommodation support