Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Logistics

at  Instacart

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 (masters or PhD) in artificial intelligence, machine learning, operations research or equivalent self study and experience
• Have strong programming skills in Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and Machine Learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools
• Have strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Are a strong communicator who can collaborate with diverse stakeholders across all levels

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have 3+ years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets
• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks and methodologies
• Experience in applying machine learning and optimization techniques to solve marketplace problems

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will utilize your extensive technical knowledge to address and solve critical, complex issues in our marketplace systems. You will apply machine learning to create and optimize solutions in impactful areas such as routing optimization, pricing, dispatch and mapping. You will be at the forefront of initiatives, overseeing them from the initial concept stage all the way through to prototyping and implementation, in addition to conducting experiments.