Data Scientist (Predictive Services) (Opendoor)

About Opendoor

Are you intrigued by the thought of disrupting a trillion dollar industry through technology? At Opendoor, we are on a bold mission to empower everyone with the freedom to move by making buying, selling and trading-in a home stress-free and instant. In four years since we started, we have hired an exceptional team, seen strong growth, bought and sold over 20,000 homes (with an annual purchase run rate exceeding $3.8 billion), and raised over $1 billion in equity funding. The coming years present a tremendous opportunity for innovation as we explore new frontiers and scale nationwide.

We’re seeking an exceptional Data Scientist to join us in building data products at the core of the company. We build valuation models, predictive modeling infrastructure, and lead growth experiments. Day to day, it’s a mix of machine learning, crowdsourcing, exploratory data analysis, feature extraction, and software engineering.

As a Data Scientist you will:

• Improve our industry-leading home valuation model using millions of real-estate transactions and complementary datasets
• Rapidly prototype features and predictive models
• Build ML pipelines in production
• Identify, research, and analyze new data sources to improve model accuracy
• Become a domain expert in real-estate
• Coordinate with product, engineering, and operations to understand impact and trade-offs of modeling improvements

We’re looking for teammates who bring:

• Commitment to rigorous analysis and production-quality code
• Passion for building solid data infrastructure
• A love of tackling complexity in real-world datasets such as geo data and transaction data
• Experience in one of Python, R, Java, Scala, Julia; if R or Julia, candidate must be able to make algorithms scale
• Familiarity with basic classes of ML algorithms, concepts in feature extraction and selection
• Ability and desire to communicate your analysis with clarity and precision
• Resourcefulness and pragmatism

Bonus points:

• Competition experience in data mining or machine learning
• You love delighting customers with honest, transparent products and experiences
• Experience with GIS data