
Senior Data Scientist II – AI for Analytics
Instacart
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United 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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningstatistical methodsanalytical skillscausal experimentationAI workflowsproduct roadmap creationfeature improvementmodel deploymentcross-functional leadership
Soft Skills
prioritizationstakeholder managementteam alignmentprocess alignmentgoal setting