Instacart

Senior Data Scientist II – AI for Analytics

Instacart

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $182,000 - $230,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Drive AI for Analytics data science work
  • Identify promising opportunity areas and contribute data expertise for new product ideas
  • Use and deploy a variety of AI systems in production
  • Improve product features by adding intelligent functionality that relies on data science methods including statistical and machine learning methods
  • Drive critical efforts to completion with little oversight, while occasionally jumping into roles adjacent to data science (i.e. data engineering, machine learning engineer, etc)
  • Create the product roadmap
  • Ruthlessly prioritize among requests from multiple competing stakeholders
  • Act as a senior cross-functional leader of the team, aligning the team on principles, processes and goals

Requirements

  • 6+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
  • Have deeply engaged with AI workflows
  • Expert in Python (pandas), SQL, git, and Jupyter notebooks
  • Strong statistical and analytical skills
  • Built a machine learning, statistical, or AI model that made its way into production even if the code you wrote was completely rewritten before being deployed.
  • 8+ years of work experience in a data science or related field (preferred)
  • Led a cross-functional team to design a system of metrics that connected the business strategy to a set of core metrics and assigned ownership of those metrics to the team (preferred)
  • Significant causal experimentation experience (preferred)
  • Built a complex machine learning or statistical model and deployed/supported it in production (preferred)
  • Experience with Python (pandas; scikit-learn, statsmodels, or PyTorch; a visualization library that is not matplotlib; a web framework such as flask), SQL (Snowflake), git, Jupyter notebooks (preferred)
Benefits
  • Market-competitive compensation
  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningstatistical methodsanalytical skillscausal experimentationAI workflowsproduct roadmap creationfeature improvementmodel deploymentcross-functional leadership
Soft Skills
prioritizationstakeholder managementteam alignmentprocess alignmentgoal setting