AI Applied Scientist - PhD Intern, Foundational IQ

About the team

Zillow AI’s Foundational IQ group builds the core intelligence that powers search, discovery, and conversational experiences like Zillow Copilot. We combine text, imagery, geospatial and time‑series signals to learn rich representations of homes, neighborhoods, and shopper intent, then use them to improve user experiences on Zillow. Our team operates as applied researchers who ship: we prototype quickly, evaluate rigorously (offline metrics and online experiments), and partner closely with product and engineering to bring models to production. We care deeply about helpfulness, safety, and fairness, including domain‑specific, fair‑housing‑aware evaluation, and we invest in modern ML platforms, data governance, and observability to run at national scale. The result is AI that reduces friction, increases confidence, and makes complex home decisions feel simpler for millions of people.

About the role

As a PhD Research Intern on the F...