Machine Learning Intern, Economics – Fall

Instacart

Intern role on Economics team applying machine learning to economic problems for grocery delivery service. Involves design and execution of machine learning projects and collaborative work with economists and engineers.

Posted 6/10/2026internshipRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesEntry Level💰 $42 - $50 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

KerasPandasPythonScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will help design and build end-to-end machine learning solutions.
You will be working in small and cross-functional product teams, with great opportunities for growth and ownership of projects.
You will be an active member of an internal community, including economists, data scientists, operations research scientists and machine learning engineers, sharing learnings, best practices and research across many domains.
You will develop high impact solutions to support Instacart's ambitious growth plans.
You will work closely with engineers, product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to recommending a solution and testing it in controlled experiments.
You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Current or recently graduated PhD student in economics or a related field with focus on data-intense problems.
A blend of economic theory, applied econometrics, and business acumen that let you jump into a fast-paced environment and contribute from day one.
Expertise in causal inference with observational and experimental data.
Expertise in Python or R and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and machine learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools.
Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningcausal inferencedata manipulationapplied econometricseconomic theoryPythonRSQLPandasscikit-learn

Soft Skills

self-motivationownershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solving

Certifications

PhD in economics