Senior Research Scientist

As a Senior Research Scientist at Opendoor, you will partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to drive the business forward with data. You’ll set up data and measurement strategies to understand the state of our products and operations, understand if any new initiative achieves positive impacts through experimentation and causal inference, and build machine learning and optimization models. 

• Define the data strategy, including creating metrics with existing systems to understand our products and policies, and designing the next generation intelligent systems to improve our real estate pricing and operations practices
• Build models and policies to help teams achieve their business objectives
• Design experiments and conduct causal inference to determine effect of our initiatives
• Become a domain expert in real estate

• Expertise in statistical inference and machine learning modeling
• Proficiency working with complex and fast evolving data sets
• Experience in product analytics and experimental design
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence non-technical audiences with analytical insights
• 5+ years of industry experience with advanced degree in a quantitative field
• Proficiency in SQL or any other database languages and numeric programming in Python, R or other languages

• Fraud or incident detection
• Working with hardware and sensor data
• Time series analysis and forecasting 
• Optimization under uncertainty and risk management

Compensation:

Remote roles in the US: The base salary range for this position in Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, and New Jersey is $164,000 - $253,000 yr, and in California and New York City is $164,000 - $253,000 yr. Base salary may vary depending on relevant experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 12 paid holidays per year, medical/dental/vision insurance, basic life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.

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