Principal Data Scientist

Housing.com

Founded in 2012 and acquired by REA India in 2017, Housing.com is India’s most innovative real estate advertising platform for homeowners, landlords, developers, and real estate brokers. The company offers listings for new homes, resale homes, rentals, plots and co-living spaces in India. Backed by strong research and analytics, the company’s experts provide comprehensive real estate services that cover advertising and marketing, sales solutions for real estate developers, personalized search, virtual viewing, AR&VR content, home loans end-to-end transaction services, and post-transaction services to consumers for both buying and renting.

PropTiger.com

PropTiger.com is among India’s leading digital real estate advisory firm offering a one-stop platform for buying residential real estate. Founded in 2011 with the goal to help people buy their dream homes, PropTiger.com leverages the power of information and the organisation’s deep-rooted understanding of the real estate sector to bring simplicity, transparency and trust in the home buying process. PropTiger.com helps home-buyers through the entire home- buying process through a mix of technology-enabled tools as well as on-ground support. The company offers researched information about various localities and properties and provides guidance on matters pertaining to legal paperwork and loan assistance to successfully fulfil a transaction.

Makaan.com

Makaan.com was acquired by REA India in May 2015, with a vision to establish a true "marketplace" in real estate. With consumer ratings on large number of sellers, credible listings data and real-time intelligence on property search, Makaan.com has emerged as the preferred partner for consumers looking to rent, buy or sell a home. Makaan.com offers its online consumers maximum property options and has become one of the largest advertising platforms in online real estate in India.

Our Vision

Changing the way India experiences property.

Our Mission

To be the first choice of our consumers and partners in discovering, renting, buying, selling, financing a home, and digitally enabling them throughout their journey. We do that with data, design, technology, and above all, the passion of our people while delivering value to our shareholder

Our Culture

Culture forms the core of our foundation and our effort towards creating an engaging workplace that has resulted in REA India being ranked 3rd among the coveted list of India’s Best 100 Companies to Work For in 2023 by the Great Place to Work Institute®. REA India was also ranked in the top 25 workplaces in 2022 & 2021 and in top 50 in 2019. In addition, REA India was also recognized as Best Workplace™ in Building a Culture of Innovation by All in 2023 and India’s Best Workplaces™ in Retail (e-commerce category) for the third time in 2023. REA India is ranked 4th among Best Workplaces in Asia in 2023 and was ranked 55th in 2022, & 48th in 2021 apart from being recognized as Top 50 Best Workplaces™ for Women in India in 2023 and 2021. REA India is also recognized as one of India's Top 50 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2023 by Great Place to Work®. At REA India, we believe in creating a home for our people, where they feel a sense of belonging and purpose. By fostering a culture of inclusion and continuous learning and growth, every team member has the opportunity to thrive, embrace the spirit of being part of a global family, while contributing to revolutionize the way India experiences property. When you come to REA India, you truly COME HOME!

REA India (Housing.com, PropTiger.com, Makaan.com) is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified individuals to apply for employment. We are committed to creating an environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and any other form of unlawful behavior. We value diversity and inclusion and do not discriminate against our people or applicants for employment based on age, color, gender, marital status, caste, religion, race, ethnic group, nationality, religious or political conviction, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, family responsibility, or disability or any other legally protected status. We firmly strive to eliminate any barriers that may impede equal opportunities while also recognizing that specific job roles may require appointees to possess the necessary qualifications, skills, abilities to perform essential functions of the position effectively.

What does this role hold for you...??

● Doing research and bringing innovations to develop next generation solutions in core functional areas related to NLP, Speech Analysis (including Indian languages), Image = Processing, PriceEstimator, Digital Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Campaign Management & Data Insights etc

● Provide technical thought leadership, coaching and mentorship in the field of data science

in working with engineering and other cross functional teams

● Evolve the approach for the application of machine learning/deep learning to existing program and project disciplines

● Help establish standards in machine learning and statistical analysis to ensure consistency in quality across projects and teams and identify relevant process efficiencies

● Lead Technical solution design of different AI/ML-based projects and drive execution to ensure a reliable, scalable, maintainable solution

Apply if you have...

● A graduation/post-graduation degree in Computer Science/ Mathematics/Statistics (IITs, IIITs, NITs and other Tier-I colleges preferred)

● An experience with one or more of ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, NLTK, NumPy, Pandas, Keras, TensorFlow, Theano and other Cognitive Tools.

● 5-8 years of strong hands-on experience in one or more of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), NLP, Deep Learning, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Neural Networks

● 2+ years of experience of mentoring and managing ML projects and medium-size team is preferred

● Worked on one or more of Deep Learning Architectures such as CNN, RNN, LSTM or any of their variants

● An experience in Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost (desirable)

● Coding proficiency in Python (mandatory)

● Proficiency with various techniques in ML such as regression, classification, and cluster analysis

● Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop/Spark)

● Excellent Communication Skills

● Ability to take research risk and tackle hard problems independently

● Comfortable with Statistical methods and procedures

● Experienced in building strong Data Science organization and practices and cultivating a high-performance team culture