
Senior Staff Engineer, Computer Vision – AI
Instacart
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $270,000 - $342,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Invent and build novel CV models and algorithms from scratch
- Own end-to-end data infrastructure: design and operate labeling pipelines
- Own the model-to-device pipeline: optimize models for Caper’s edge hardware
- Partner with AI Infrastructure and Instacart’s ML platform teams
- Translate business goals into system requirements
- Define technical strategy and roadmap for CV/AI; serve as the primary technical voice
- Establish engineering standards for model development and deployment
Requirements
- 8+ years owning end-to-end computer vision or deep learning systems in production
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to design and ship novel CV architectures using Python and PyTorch (or TensorFlow)
- Proven ownership of the model-to-device pipeline: led the deployment of production models on edge hardware
- Led the design and operation of large-scale data and labeling pipelines
- Track record of framing ambiguous business problems as tractable engineering workstreams
- Owned distributed training and inference infrastructure on cloud/GPU platforms
- Established engineering standards, grown engineers through mentorship and design leadership
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- Annual refresh grants
- New hire equity grant
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
computer visiondeep learningPythonPyTorchTensorFlowmodel deploymentdata infrastructurelabeling pipelinesdistributed traininginference infrastructure
Soft Skills
technical strategymentorshipdesign leadershipproblem framingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor’s in Computer ScienceBachelor’s in Electrical Engineering