WE’RE TRANSFORMING THE GROCERY INDUSTRY

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have a graduate degree in a technical field (artificial intelligence, machine learning, economics, statistics) or equivalent work experience.
• A deep understanding of machine learning algorithms and techniques, with fluency in modern research and literature
• Strong programming skills in software engineering (e.g., Python, Go), along with expertise in data manipulation using tools (SQL, Spark, and Pandas), and ML frameworks (XGBoost, Torch, Tensorflow)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and can collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders across all levels

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have 1-2 years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets
• Experience with sequential modeling, transformer architecture, and generative retrieval
• Familiarity with LLM integrations, prompt engineering, and productivity tooling
• Experience in building large scale online recommendation systems
  Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
  Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
  For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will collaborate with senior engineers and product leaders to build the future of Instacart Ads. You will explore and innovate novel machine learning solutions across the ads stack in areas such as ads targeting, bidding and pacing. You will actively contribute to team initiatives, assisting in all stages from initial ideation to prototyping, experimentation, and final implementation.