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We deliver market-leading valuation and risk evaluation services across the property technology and financial technology industries.\nOur customers include 9 of the top 10 mortgage providers, as well as many others in financial services. Founded in 1999, we made our name with our Automated Valuation Model (AVM) and now provide more than 50 million automated valuations every year.\nWe want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed.\nYou will be responsible for maintaining and improving the industry leading Hometrack AVM (Automated Valuation Model to estimate the value of residential properties). 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Detecting model drift and deploying model improvements to ensure the reliability of our valuations for lender clients.\nResearching new datasets and advanced machine learning techniques that can be used to increase the accuracy of our property valuation model and improve our AI capabilities across our model and product range.\nWork collaboratively with fellow data scientists, ML Engineers, analysts, product managers and data engineers.\nMeeting with stakeholders to translate business needs into data science problems.\nYou’ll hit the ground running if you have:\nAn advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or other quantitative discipline\nStrong Python experience and knowledge, with the ability to write stable, scalable and maintainable code.\nYou worked in an R&D environment and/or you are intimately familiar with the fundamentals of the scientific research method: critical thinking, formulating hypotheses, running experiments, drawing conclusions etc. \nExperienced at identifying problems that can be solved with machine learning and delivering them from prototype through to production.\nGreat communicator - convey complex ideas and solutions in clear, precise and accessible ways.\nTeam player who cares about accelerating not only Hometrack’s technical capabilities, but also empowering colleagues\nStrong understanding of machine learning applications, development life cycle processes and tools: CI/CD, version control (git), testing frameworks, MLOps.\nExperience with data science Python libraries such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Pytorch etc.\nComfortable working with Docker and containerised applications\nExperience using AWS or similar cloud computing platform\nExperience delivering machine learning solutions within regulated environments, including familiarity with Model Risk Management (MRM), governance, or model explainability.\nThere’s always room to grow and learn with our roles so please don’t be put off if you don’t have all of these skills and experiences. 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