Lead AI Engineer, Multimodal Agentic Systems (Remote)

Zillow Group Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Remote work option

Job summary

Zillow Group Inc. is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for the Agentic AI team. This role focuses on building large-scale multimodal agentic experiences, including Voice AI and multi-agent collaboration, with rigorous evaluation and safety guardrails.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, translate research into product-ready features, and communicate advances to executives. A senior technical leader, you’ll influence engineering direction across teams while staying at the

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in CS/EE or related field, focus on frontier multimodal LLMs.
• 5+ years deploying large-scale ML models; last 2–3 years building agent-based systems or multi-agent collaboration.
• Experience developing engaging dialogue systems capable of long conversations, context-aware tool selection, and compliant response generation.
• Experience building AI services capable of hundreds of millions of daily interactions with high availability, low latency, and robust fault tolerance.
• Familiarity with LangGraph, Agents SDK, AutoGen, and production ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop large-scale, fault-tolerant multimodal agentic experiences reaching millions of customers.
• Design and develop multiple agent interaction modes, including Voice AI.
• Pioneer evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and safety guardrails to ensure trustworthy and responsible agents.
• Lead complex, multi-team initiatives bridging research and scalable engineering.
• Distill complex research findings into actionable insights for executives and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Multimodal LLMs

Large-scale ML models

Agent-based systems

Dialogue systems

High availability

Agentic AI frameworks

Technical leadership

Education

Master's degree or above in CS/EE

Tools

LangGraph

Agents SDK

AutoGen

Production ML infra

Job description

Zillow Group Inc. is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for the Agentic AI team. This role focuses on building large-scale multimodal agentic experiences, including Voice AI and multi-agent collaboration, with rigorous evaluation and safety guardrails.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, translate research into product-ready features, and communicate advances to executives. A senior technical leader, you’ll influence engineering direction across teams while staying at the