Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's team of machine learning experts and contribute to transforming the grocery industry. This role offers flexibility in terms of location and level, determined by experience and performance. You will design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions to address complex marketplace challenges. Collaboration with various teams is crucial, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and aligning solutions with business goals. The role offers competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants and a remote work option.

Requirements

• Have a graduate degree (masters or PhD) in artificial intelligence, machine learning, operations research or equivalent self study and experience
• Have strong programming skills in Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and Machine Learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools
• Have strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Are a strong communicator who can collaborate with diverse stakeholders across all levels

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions to tackle practical challenges in the our complex marketplace
• Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and backend engineers to deeply understand business needs and create impactful ML applications
• Actively engage with diverse stakeholders to ensure that solutions are well-integrated and aligned with business goals
• Push the envelope on our operational efficiency by continually refining and advancing our algorithms and models

Preferred Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets
• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks and methodologies
• Experience in productionalizing machine learning and optimization techniques to solve marketplace problemm

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is remote
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants