Data Scientist

OpenDoor; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 169,600 - 233,200; Full time

Job summary

Opendoor is seeking a mid to senior Data Scientist to scale pricing for our housing marketplace. This role sits at the crossroads of economics, machine learning, experimentation, and product strategy to tackle ambiguity and shape the pricing roadmap.

You will build predictive models, run experiments, and deliver insights that move millions of dollars in housing inventory, impacting customers, the balance sheet, and marketplace health. Hybrid Seattle-based role with some remote work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or a similar quantitative role.
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency; experience with production data pipelines and ML tooling.
• Ability to translate analytical findings into clear business recommendations.
• Experience with ill-defined problems and driving clarity on problem definition, success metrics, and realistic tradeoffs.
• High data-quality bar: rigorous validation, bias analysis, and evidence-based decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pricing metrics, dashboards, and frameworks.
• Run experiments and causal analyses to measure impact and drive decisions.
• Develop predictive + statistical models that improve pricing accuracy.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to influence roadmap and model deployment.
• Deliver insights and narratives that inform executive strategy.

Skills

Deep statistical reasoning

ML ownership

SQL

Python

Model deployment

Causal inference

Communication

8+ years exp

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Ray

SageMaker

Vertex

Job description

At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.

Location: Hybrid 4 onsite, 1 remote Seattle WA.

Opendoor is transforming one of the largest, most complex markets in the world — residential real estate — using data at massive scale. Every pricing signal we generate directly impacts how we value homes, how we manage risk, and how efficiently capital moves through our marketplace. The work is highly leveraged: the quality of our pricing decisions influences conversion, margins, customer trust, and the company’s financial performance.

We are looking for mid to senior level Data Scientists. In this role, you will be a core driver of how Opendoor prices real estate at scale. You’ll operate at the intersection of economics, machine learning, experimentation, and product strategy — tackling ambiguity, shaping the pricing roadmap, and building models/analyses that materially move the business. Your insights will influence how we evaluate millions of dollars of housing inventory — and directly shape outcomes for our customers, our balance sheet, and the health of our marketplace.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain pricing metrics, dashboards, and frameworks.
• Run experiments and causal analyses to measure impact and drive decisions.
• Develop predictive + statistical models that improve pricing accuracy.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to influence roadmap and model deployment.
• Deliver insights and narratives that inform executive strategy.

Skills & Qualifications

• Deep statistical reasoning: hypothesis design, experimental design, causal inference, and ability to distinguish signal vs noise.
• Proven end-to-end ML ownership: data acquisition, feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
• Strong SQL + Python proficiency; comfortable working with production data pipelines and modern ML tooling (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Ray, SageMaker, Vertex, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear business recommendations and influence cross-functional decision-making.
• Experience working with ill-defined problems and driving clarity on problem definition, success metrics, and realistic tradeoffs.
• High data-quality bar: disciplined approach to validation, bias analysis, and making decisions rooted in evidence vs intuition.
• Effective communicator — able to tell the story behind the model to both highly technical and non-technical audiences.
• 8+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or a similar quantitative role.

The pay range for this role is:

169,600 - 233,200 USD per year (US Zone 2)