Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's team of talented Ph.D. students for a summer internship across various machine learning teams. You'll contribute to impactful projects in search, ads, personalization, recommendation, fulfillment, and more. Instacart offers a flexible work environment, allowing you to work remotely. The internship focuses on solving large-scale problems and creating innovative solutions. Successful candidates will possess strong programming and algorithmic skills, excellent communication, and a proactive attitude. Compensation and benefits are highly competitive and vary based on location.

Requirements

• Be a Ph.D. student in computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or related areas
• Possess strong programming (Python, C++) and algorithmic skills
• Have good communication skills
• Be curious, willing to learn, self-motivated, and hands-on

Responsibilities

• Work on a very large scope of problems in search, ads, personalization, recommendation, fulfillment, product and knowledge graph, pricing, etc
• Using cutting-edge NLP technologies to understand the intent of user queries
• Improving search relevance by incorporating signals from various sources
• Improving ads revenue and ROAS
• Working on graph data management and knowledge discovery, and creating a natural language interface for data access
• Using cost sensitive learning to reduce loss
• Estimating willingness-to-pay, and optimizing revenue and user experience
• Optimization in a variety of situations, including supply/demand prediction, last mile delivery, in-store optimization, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• Be a Ph.D. student at a top tier university in the United States
• Have prior internship/work experience in the machine learning space

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation
• Remote work
• Benefits offerings (details available via link in job description)