AI Automation Lead I

Instacart

full-time

Posted on: 9/23/2025

Origin: • 🇨🇦 Canada

✨ AI Apply

💰 CA$113,000 - CA$125,000 per year

Senior

AWSAzureBigQueryCloudDockerETLFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptNode.jsPythonSQLTableau

About the role

Create AI tools that understand and respond to natural-language questions to provide insights, warnings, and reports
Design and operate integrations across internal systems and third-party SaaS (REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, OAuth, JWT) with reliability considerations (rate limits, retries, idempotency)
Develop and orchestrate multi-step AI workflows using frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph, including human-in-the-loop approvals
Ensure AI safety and reliability via guardrails, evaluation frameworks, fallback logic, RBAC, audit trails, and PII protections
Build and maintain data pipelines (SQL, Python, dbt) that power AI agents with reliability, observability, and performance
Create lightweight UIs and self-serve experiences (Slack apps, low-code internal tools) for non-technical users
Collaborate with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to select projects, prototype quickly, and operationalize solutions
Apply DevOps and monitoring best practices: CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and incident response guides
Enforce security and compliance best practices across automations and data workflows

2–4 years experience in AI, automation, data engineering, or analytics engineering
Proficiency in SQL and Python; experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines
Experience designing and consuming APIs/webhooks and building services (FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js)
Exposure to dbt and modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery)
Experience incorporating AI/LLMs into workflows, including prompt design, data retrieval, evaluation, and human oversight
Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and event-driven systems (queues, pub/sub, webhooks)
Strong communication skills: able to translate complex business processes into scalable automations
Experience with at least one data visualization tool (Tableau, Mode, Power BI, Looker, or similar)
Hands-on experience with workflow automation and low-code development platforms (Zapier, n8n, Gumloop, Superblocks)
Preferred: built AI tools adopted by non-technical users; experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or MCP; exposure to vector search/RAG and evaluation frameworks (Ragas, DeepEval); Slack app development; API tooling (OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman); cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure); Docker and infrastructure-as-code; business tool integrations (Salesforce, Slack, Google Workspace, Jira/Linear); experience in e-commerce/retail analytics/ad tech