Instacart

Senior Staff Engineer, Computer Vision – AI

Instacart

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $270,000 - $342,000 per year

Job Level

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