Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, up 90% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $161k–$331k (avg $225k).
Instacart currently has 35 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 60%, are focused on agents, with application roles making up another significant portion at 31%. Engineering is the most frequent function hiring for these positions, followed by Product. The company is actively seeking talent in the United States and Canada. Frequent tech tags include recommender systems, search ranking, and model serving, suggesting a focus on core AI applications and their deployment. Over the last 30 days, Instacart posted 8 new AI roles, representing a 43% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Instacart currently has 42 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Solutions Architect (2), Director of Product, Agentic Commerce (2), Knowledge Strategist Team Lead, Governance (2), Senior Data Scientist (I & II) (2), Senior Data Scientist - Shopping Experience (Search) (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Instacart's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (57%), application (24%), data (14%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Instacart is hiring AI talent in: United States (31 roles), Canada (11 roles).
Job postings at Instacart most frequently reference: model serving, rag, agent orchestration, recommender systems, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, Instacart has posted 24 new AI-related roles. That is a +167% change versus the prior 30 days (9 → 24).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer I — Agentic Analytics Senior Software Engineer to join the Agentic Analytics Platform team, focusing on building LLM-powered systems for data practitioners. This role involves designing and implementing end-to-end systems including retrieval, agentic workflows, evals, and product surfaces within Instacart's Data Infrastructure organization. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, AI Productivity Instacart's AI Productivity team builds AI-powered platforms and tools to enhance engineer and operator productivity. This role involves designing, building, and operating production systems that integrate LLMs into workflows, focusing on code assistants, knowledge search, and chat. The engineer will own projects end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance, and will partner with various teams to ship scalable AI solutions. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Software Engineering Manager to lead the Catalog Enrichment team, building an AI-native platform and pipelines that create, enrich, and maintain product attributes. The role involves blending LLMs, classical inference, workflow orchestration, and human review into configurable pipelines, owning ML-facing interfaces, and partnering with various teams to drive impact. The goal is to evolve towards autonomous pipeline construction and ensure auditable governance. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Shopping Experience (Search) Senior Data Scientist focused on Search experience at Instacart. This role involves owning core search metrics, designing and analyzing experiments for ranking, retrieval, and UX, and partnering with ML teams to improve relevance, quality, and latency. The position requires strong analytical skills, A/B testing experience, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations. Experience in search relevance, NLP, and bridging offline/online metrics is preferred. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Ads Auctions Senior Data Scientist on the Ads Auctions team responsible for innovating and enhancing auction mechanisms, including pricing strategies, bid optimization, and selection processes. The role involves designing analytical frameworks, running experiments, developing ML models for forecasting and optimization, and building simulations to improve CPC infrastructure and bidding algorithms, directly impacting advertiser performance and revenue. Requires expertise in causal inference, mechanism design, and econometrics. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist (I & II) This role focuses on developing and deploying AI-powered systems to enhance analytical work and enable self-serve analytics at scale within Instacart's consumer marketplace. The Senior Data Scientist II will own product strategy, identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities, and lead the integration of AI systems with data experts to improve feature launch velocity and overall analytical efficiency. | Ship | 7 |