Instacart is hiring a
Staff Data Scientist

Summary

Join our team and drive Engagement data science work to transform the grocery industry. As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for driving critical efforts to completion with little oversight, while occasionally jumping into roles adjacent to data science.

Requirements

• 6+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
• Led a team to adopt at least one new metric with which to measure the performance of the team
• Ran several sophisticated A/B tests at a company
• Built a machine learning or statistical model that made its way into production even if the code you wrote was completely rewritten before being deployed
• Experience with Python (pandas), SQL, git, and Jupyter notebooks

Responsibilities

• Drive critical efforts to completion with little oversight, while occasionally 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 of the team, aligning the team on principles, processes and goals, and mentoring junior colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
• Led a cross-functional team to design a system of metrics that connected the business strategy to a set of core metrics and assigned ownership of those metrics to the team
• Significant causal experimentation experience in environments with small sample sizes
• Built a complex machine learning or statistical model and deployed/supported it in production
• Experience with Python (pandas; scikit-learn, statsmodels, or PyTorch; a visualization library that is not matplotlib; a web framework such as flask), SQL (Snowflake), git, Jupyter notebooks

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation and benefits
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants