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Principal Applied Scientist (User Modeling)

ZillowRemote (US)

$195,600–312,400/yr

Posted Oct 20, 2026

What you’d do

Own LLM post-training pipelines including SFT, DPO, and reinforcement fine-tuning on GPU infrastructure, build reward models, and design evaluation using LLM-as-a-Judge. Full-time remote role within the US, with technical leadership and mentorship duties. Found on the employer's careers page on Oct 20, 2026. Apply through the link.

You’ll need

  • LLM post-training: SFT, DPO, RFT/GRPO
  • GPU infrastructure training experience
  • Reward model (PRM) development
  • LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation frameworks
  • Technical leadership and mentorship

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