Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Instacart
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $261,000 - $330,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define and drive the long term technical vision for Shopping ML across search, discovery, recommendations, and personalization.
- Lead development of AI systems that fundamentally improve how customers discover products and shop on Instacart.
- Architect large scale ML systems combining LLM reasoning, retrieval, ranking, recommendation models, and personalization.
- Build and operate production ML systems powering real time shopping experiences across millions of users and products.
- Identify foundational ML capabilities that unlock new customer experiences and accelerate experimentation across the organization.
- Partner with senior leaders across product, engineering, and data science to shape technical strategy and roadmap.
- Influence company wide ML architecture and contribute to major technical initiatives across Instacart.
- Mentor senior/staff engineers through design reviews, architecture guidance, and hands-on collaboration.
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 10+ years building and operating large scale machine learning systems in production.
- Proven track record architecting ML systems that power core product experiences at global scale.
- Deep expertise in areas such as recommendation systems, ranking models, embeddings, representation learning, or search systems.
- Experience combining generative AI with traditional ML systems such as retrieval, ranking, and personalization.
- Experience designing ML platforms that support large scale experimentation, training, and deployment.
- Ability to influence senior engineering and product leaders and drive technical strategy.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across teams.
Benefits
- Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningartificial intelligencerecommendation systemsranking modelsembeddingsrepresentation learningsearch systemsgenerative AIML platformslarge scale experimentation
Soft Skills
mentoringinfluencingcollaborationtechnical strategyleadership
Certifications
Master’s in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science