Senior Research Scientist at Opendoor

About the Team
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. 
Role Responsibilities:

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

Skills Needed:

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

Bonus Points:

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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More About Us
To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website, to hear about our culture directly from team members visit The Muse and to discover what we are building for our customers read our blog posts.
We Offer the Following Benefits and Perks 
• Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave
• Paid time off to volunteer
Please note that these benefits and perks are available only to Full Time team members and do not apply to contract roles.
Opendoor Values Openness
Our team celebrates our diverse backgrounds. We believe that being open about who we are and what we do allows us to be better. Individuals seeking employment at Opendoor are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. For California residents: for more information about the categories of personal information that we collect for recruiting purposes, please see our personnel Privacy Policy.