Principal Data Scientist (Location Intelligence)

At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fueling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.

Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.

Job Description:

Cotality is a property and location intelligence company.

The hybrid-remote team you will join builds products that are at the core of all of Cotality’s data business. We are a cross-functional group of data scientists, engineers and domain SMEs in charge of digitally modelling real estate assets at a nationwide scale, both geographically and through other defining characteristics.

What You Will Do: 

• Harness the richest property and geospatial data catalog in the industry to identify uniquely identifiable locations of property development, urban expansion, and transactional activity

• Apply a variety of data science, machine learning, and deep learning techniques across multi-modal data assets

• Leverage cloud-native BigData processing capabilities on Google Cloud, directly in designing and building models, and in partnership with our engineering resources to build pipelines around them

• Partner with API engineering teams to make insights available to internal and external customers. Consult on data domain, schema and data subject matter in general 

• Partner with Product Management and Sales Engineering to help build data product narratives 

• Participate in consultative sessions with select customers to amplify the understanding of data science led value in our data products

Job Qualifications:

What You Bring To The Table:

• 9+ years of experience in working in the Data Analytics industry

• Hands-on experience in analyzing and building data science and analytics solutions with large scale datasets using SQL based query languages, and Python based data science libraries

• Understanding of US addresses and location based data

• Hands-on experience in building data visualizations, especially map based visualizations to showcase broad patterns of problems and opportunities in data, as well as the value added in our data science solutions

• Excellent articulation skills that complement the development skills to tell data stories

• Team player who collaborates and complements colleagues in a cross-functional team to solve hard problems

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

Even better if you have some knowledge / experience with any of the following:

• Natural language processing, text embeddings, semantic similarity

• Working with US land parcel and/or building footprints data

• Working in a Pyspark notebook based environment

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Annual Pay Range:

Application Window:

This opportunity is expected to remain posted through the date identified below, subject to business needs.

Thrive with Cotality

At Cotality, we offer more than just a job, we provide a benefits experience designed to support your whole self. From a flexible working model to competitive time off and standout health coverage with meaningful perks and growth opportunities, our package is built to help you thrive at work and in life.

Highlights include:

• Time off: Generous PTO and 11 paid holidays, plus well-being and volunteer time off.

• Family Support: Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.

• Health: Multiple medical plan options with mental health and wellness support offerings.

• Retirement: 401(k) with company match and vesting after one year.

• Financial Perks: $400 annual well-being stipend and tuition assistance up to $5,250.

• Extras: Recognition Rewards, Referral bonuses, exclusive discounts and more!

• Click here to see a comprehensive list of our benefit offerings.

Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or status as a veteran of the Armed Forces, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace. ​​​

Cotality is fully committed to a work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. ​ We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.  ​

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