Remote Real Estate Data Scientist: ML & Forecasting

Placements24; Richards Bay; Remote; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,501,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Annual bonus

Remote work flexibility

Private health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Home office stipend

Job summary

Placements24 invites applications for a Remote Real Estate Data Scientist to derive insights from vast real estate datasets and develop predictive models. The role emphasizes building data pipelines, experimental design, and translating analytics into strategic decisions.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience, strong Python/R skills, and a passion for real estate tech. This fully remote position offers flexible scheduling and a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science or related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist with predictive modeling and ML.
• Experience in real estate data preferred.
• Proficiency in Python or R and libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy).
• SQL proficiency; big data tech experience (Spark, Hadoop).
• Strong statistics, experimental design, and A/B testing understanding.
• Excellent data visualization and communication skills; remote collaboration ability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain advanced statistical models and ML algorithms for real estate data.
• Extract, clean, and transform large datasets for analysis.
• Design experiments to test hypotheses and validate model performance.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for real-time processing and reporting.
• Visualize results and communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to address business questions.
• Stay updated on advances in data science and real estate tech.
• Contribute to data strategy and best practices within the organization.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing models and analytics approaches.
• Ensure data quality, accuracy, and privacy compliance.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Data preprocessing

Python

R

SQL

Data visualization

Remote collaboration

Education

Master's or PhD in Data Science/Statistics/CS/Mathematics/Economics

Tools

Python

R

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Placements24 invites applications for a Remote Real Estate Data Scientist to derive insights from vast real estate datasets and develop predictive models. The role emphasizes building data pipelines, experimental design, and translating analytics into strategic decisions.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience, strong Python/R skills, and a passion for real estate tech. This fully remote position offers flexible scheduling and a competitive compensation package.