Staff Data Science Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's cutting-edge team as a Staff Data Science Engineer and transform online grocery delivery with data-driven solutions. You will lead intelligent systems strategy, develop new data collection and integration methods, and build intuitive tools for data scientists. Collaborate cross-functionally to influence product development and drive innovation. This role requires strong cross-functional collaboration and the ability to drive critical efforts to completion. Instacart offers a flexible work environment and highly competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants.

Requirements

• 6+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
• Expert in Python, SQL, git, and Jupyter notebooks
• Deployed several machine learning models to production and had to support those models
• Know how machine learning algorithms work
• Deeply passionate about building tools to enable data scientists to maximize their impact

Responsibilities

• Lead intelligent systems strategy: Engage across the company and identify the most promising opportunity areas across the product along with contributing data expertise to refine and develop new product ideas
• Data collection and distribution: Identify and introduce new and valuable datasets to Instacart and onboard teams to use the new datasets
• Intelligent systems tooling: Build interfaces to Instacart’s infrastructure that enable data scientists to easily train and deploy new intelligent systems while automatically complying with all company policies
• Technical work with implications across multiple teams: Own building systems and performing analysis that impact multiple teams and is often deeply complex or critical to get right
• Drive critical efforts to completion with little oversight, while jumping into roles adjacent to data science (i.e. data engineering, machine learning engineer, etc)
• Bring new ideas to the team that get incorporated into the product roadmap
• Ruthlessly prioritize among requests from multiple competing stakeholders
• Act as a senior cross-functional leader, aligning the org on principles, processes, and goals

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
• Significant experience as a backend software engineer in a data-related space
• Expert in scikit-learn - you know the philosophy behind the API extremely well

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants