
Senior Machine Learning Engineer – AI Special Projects
Instacart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $196,000 - $263,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
SparkSQL
About the role
- Build the team vision by partnering with cross-functional leaders
- Drive hands-on execution of AI solutions
- Deploy AI systems at scale, managing experiment lifecycles
- Innovate by exploring novel paradigms in recommendation systems
- Elevate the team by mentoring junior members
Requirements
- Expertise in Generative AI technologies, including prompt engineering and model fine-tuning
- Strong background in traditional machine learning and deep learning fundamentals
- Professional software development skills, including building data pipelines (SQL/Spark)
- Product-focused mindset with a bias for action
- Exceptional communication skills
- An innovation-driven mindset, rooted in curiosity and passion for AI
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Generative AIprompt engineeringmodel fine-tuningmachine learningdeep learningdata pipelinesSQLSpark
Soft skills
communicationmentoringinnovation-driven mindsetcuriositypassion for AIproduct-focused mindsetbias for action