Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Quality

Instacart

. Develop & design innovative AI-powered systems addressing a wide range of Ads Quality challenges .

Posted 3/31/2026full-timeRemote • California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $261,000 - $330,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGoSparkTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop & design innovative AI-powered systems addressing a wide range of Ads Quality challenges
Balance between user, advertiser, and retailer needs
Identify and build gen AI solutions
Build advanced generative AI and recommendation frameworks
Collaborate with Data Scientists to establish metrics and methodologies
Define & own the Ads Quality technical strategy and roadmap
Serve as a technical leader and mentor
Build and maintain synergies with other ML engineering teams
Contributes to company-level technical initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in AI / ML or related field, or equivalent academic and research experience
10+ years of experience as a software and / or ML engineer
Proven track record of architecting & building production-grade ML systems, AI and quantitative optimization technologies at a global scale
Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions and collaborate effectively at senior to executive levels
Experience mentoring and developing engineering culture and talent.
Hands-on expertise in building large-scale AI/ML systems
Deep understanding of Ads Quality systems
Familiar with AWS, Golang, Spark, Clickhouse, Snowflake, TensorFlow.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
Role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

AIMLgenerative AIrecommendation frameworksproduction-grade ML systemsquantitative optimization technologieslarge-scale AI/ML systemsarchitectingbuildingmetrics and methodologies

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationeffective communicationengineering culture development

Certifications

PhD in AIPhD in MLequivalent academic experience