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 Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Response Prediction Lead research and development of pCTR and conversion prediction models, focusing on calibration, debiasing training data, and advancing accuracy. Contribute to next-generation Multi-Domain Multi-Task (MDMT) models, sequence modeling initiatives like TIGER, and Foundation Models for ads ranking. Formulate ambiguous problems into research directions with clear evaluation criteria. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, PhD Intern Instacart is seeking a PhD intern to work on high-impact problems at the intersection of LLM research, large-scale ML systems, and real-world e-commerce applications. The role involves working on areas such as query understanding, search relevance, generative recommendations, LLM evaluation, low-latency LLM systems, knowledge graphs, and sequence modeling. | AgentServe |
| 9 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Search Instacart is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their dedicated Search engineering team. This role will own the strategy and execution for Single-Retailer Search (SRS), Cross-Retailer Search (XRS), search suggestions, typeahead, and whitelabel search. The team is heavily ML-weighted and operates one of Instacart's largest revenue surfaces, focusing on applied search and ranking. The manager will lead and grow a senior team of engineers and MLEs, responsible for relevance, ranking, and infrastructure. Key responsibilities include owning technical strategy, roadmap, and goals; driving growth with a quality bar; championing LLMs in search; designing next-generation retrieval architecture; improving experimentation velocity through evaluation and tooling; and partnering with various teams. The role requires strong engineering management experience, direct experience with search/recommendations/applied ML systems, familiarity with modern retrieval techniques, and technical depth in ML and distributed systems. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations Senior Software Engineer on Instacart's AI Labs & Foundations team, responsible for designing, building, and operating high-scale production AI systems and agentic experiences like conversational shopping agents and voice AI. The role involves integrating foundation models, applying techniques like RAG, and owning projects end-to-end with a focus on reliability and efficiency. | Agent | 8 |
| Director of Product, Agentic Commerce Director of Product for Instacart's Agentic Commerce team, responsible for the product strategy and execution of conversational and generative AI products that deliver personalized shopping experiences at scale. This includes leading a product management team, partnering with cross-functional teams (Engineering, ML, Design, GTM, BD), defining the multi-year vision, and delivering novel AI experiences for consumers and retailers. | Agent | 8 |
| Director of Product, Agentic Commerce Director of Product for Agentic Commerce at Instacart, leading product strategy and execution for conversational and generative AI products. Focuses on building hyper-personalized shopping experiences, including an AI shopping agent (Cart Assistant) and integrations with third-party agents. Drives 0-to-1 product building, shipping AI features, and commercializing solutions while ensuring responsible AI practices. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Response Prediction Lead research and development of pCTR and conversion prediction models, focusing on improving calibration, reducing training data biases, and advancing model accuracy. Design and implement debiasing techniques, contribute to next-generation Multi-Domain Multi-Task (MDMT) models, and drive sequence modeling initiatives like TIGER. Collaborate on Foundation Models and formulate ambiguous modeling problems. | Post-trainAgent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations Senior Software Engineer on Instacart's AI Labs & Foundations team, responsible for designing, building, and operating high-scale production AI systems and agentic experiences like Cart Assistant and voice AI. This role involves integrating foundation models, applying techniques like RAG and vector search, and owning projects end-to-end, impacting millions of customers. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Machine Learning (Caper) Engineering Manager, Machine Learning to lead a team of ML and AI infrastructure engineers building perception, multimodal understanding, and edge inference systems for AI-powered shopping carts. The role involves defining the technical vision, architecting training and inference platforms, delivering production-grade CV/VLM models, and optimizing on-device inference for real-time edge operation. This is a leadership role focused on the 'brain' behind the cart, bridging edge devices with cloud systems. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Discovery Instacart is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the technical vision for AI in search and discovery. This role involves architecting and building large-scale ML systems that combine generative AI, LLM reasoning, retrieval, ranking, and personalization to create next-generation shopping experiences. The engineer will also build and operate production ML systems serving millions of users in real-time and mentor other engineers. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Product Manager, Agentic Commerce Principal Product Manager for Instacart's Agentic Commerce team, focusing on building and launching Cart Assistant, an enterprise-grade consumer shopping agent for grocery. The role involves defining product strategy, roadmap, and execution for LLM-powered conversational commerce experiences, partnering with engineering, ML, and design teams, and driving product adoption and business impact. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Search & Recommendations Ranking Instacart is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II for their Search & Recommendations Ranking team. This role focuses on building and optimizing the foundational ranking backbone that powers the entire shopping journey, aiming to improve metrics beyond clicks, such as GTV, basket lift, and retention. The position involves architecting multi-task/multi-objective models, designing value-aware optimization systems, and enhancing retrieval with LLMs, while also owning the inference layer and advancing evaluation practices. Experience with production ML, multi-objective optimization, and online testing is required, with a preference for expertise in multi-task learning, causal modeling, and low-latency ranking services. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Quality Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Quality at Instacart. This role focuses on designing and building innovative AI-powered systems for digital advertising quality, including optimizing ads pacing/bidding, retrieval, and auction processes. It involves identifying and building generative AI solutions, recommendation frameworks, and advanced systems to improve advertiser experience and campaign efficacy. The role also requires defining technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams. It's a hands-on IC/TL role at the Director+ level. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Search Instacart is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their dedicated Search engineering team. This role will own the strategy and execution for Single-Retailer Search (SRS), Cross-Retailer Search (XRS), search suggestions, typeahead, and whitelabel search. The team is heavily ML-weighted and operates one of Instacart's largest revenue surfaces, focusing on applied search and ranking. The manager will lead and grow a senior team of engineers and MLEs, responsible for relevance, ranking, and infrastructure. Key responsibilities include owning the technical strategy, roadmap, and goals; driving growth while maintaining quality; championing LLMs in search; designing next-generation retrieval architecture; improving experimentation velocity through evaluation and tooling; and partnering with various teams. The role requires strong engineering management experience, direct experience with search/recommendations/applied ML systems, familiarity with modern retrieval techniques, and technical depth in ML and distributed systems. Experience with LLMs in production and e-commerce/ads-adjacent ranking problems is preferred. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Agentic Foundations Instacart is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the Agentic Foundations for their AI-native, vendor-agnostic, API-first customer support orchestration platform. This role involves defining foundational APIs, data models, knowledge systems, and agent harnesses for both human and AI agents, with a focus on enabling rapid experimentation and resilience in AI architecture. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Agentic Foundations Instacart is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the Agentic Foundations for their AI-native, vendor-agnostic, API-first customer support orchestration platform. This role involves defining foundational APIs, data models, knowledge systems, and agent harnesses for both human and AI agents, with a focus on enabling rapid experimentation and resilience in AI architecture. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Fulfillment, Matching and Positioning Senior Machine Learning Engineer II on the Matching & Positioning team, focused on real-time decisioning for order batching, shopper routing, and assignment in a multi-sided marketplace. The role involves designing and shipping algorithms that impact profitability, delivery times, and customer satisfaction, working at the intersection of operations research, combinatorial optimization, and machine learning. Responsibilities include building production-grade optimization and ML solutions, owning the full model lifecycle, developing low-latency services, partnering with cross-functional teams, and leveraging experimentation for validation. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer II, (ML/AI Platform) Senior Software Engineer II on the ML/AI Platform team responsible for building and maintaining the internal platform that supports training and deploying AI models across the organization. This includes developing SDKs and infrastructure for AI model fine-tuning and batch inference. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Growth Modeling Instacart is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II to drive major initiatives, identify impactful opportunities, define roadmaps, mentor team members, and develop ML/AI solutions in the incentive space to drive substantial business growth. The role focuses on building production-ready ML/AI systems to optimize incentive allocation within the Growth organization. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Home & Cross-Retailer Search Staff Software Engineer for Instacart's Home & Cross-Retailer Search team, focusing on building and scaling the infrastructure for customer discovery, search, ranking, indexing, and personalization. The role involves defining technical vision, owning architecture, partnering with ML teams, and improving developer velocity. Requires strong backend systems experience, particularly in search, recommendations, or feed-ranking systems. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, In-Store Integrations Product Manager role focused on defining and delivering the data foundations and integrations for Instacart's In-Store Platform, which powers products like Caper carts and AI-driven store intelligence. The role requires architecting core connections for real-time data streams (transaction, inventory, loyalty, coupon) and enabling new AI products by ensuring robust data availability. It involves close collaboration with engineering, partnerships, and external retail technology providers. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, In-Store Integrations Senior Product Manager for Instacart's In-Store Integrations team, focusing on building the data foundations and APIs that power brick-and-mortar grocery technology. The role involves defining and delivering core connections between retailers and Instacart's product suite, with a key focus on enabling AI-driven store intelligence. This includes managing the integration roadmap, driving execution with engineering and partners, and ensuring data quality for AI models. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer II, (ML/AI Platform) Senior Software Engineer II on the ML/AI Platform team responsible for building and owning the internal platform that supports training (fine-tuning) and deploying (batch inference) AI models across the organization. This includes defining the platform, building SDKs, and supporting the necessary infrastructure. The role requires high ownership and leadership in a complex, distributed systems environment. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Shopping Experience (Search) Senior Data Scientist on the Shopping Experience team at Instacart, focusing on Search. This role owns the analytics and experimentation strategy for search relevance, ranking quality, and latency, partnering with Product, Engineering, and ML. Responsibilities include defining metrics, designing and analyzing A/B tests, building diagnostic analyses, connecting offline model evaluation with online metrics, and improving data quality for search. The role requires strong analytical skills, product sense, and communication, with experience in A/B testing, SQL, Python/R, and modern AI tooling. Preferred qualifications include experience in search relevance, recommendations, NLP, embeddings, and bridging offline/online evaluation. | ShipEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Operations Research Senior Machine Learning Engineer with Operations Research background to join the Service Availability & Routing team. Focuses on designing, developing, and deploying ML solutions for marketplace challenges like order batching, shopper routing, service availability prediction, and real-time assignment, directly impacting profitability and shopper experience at scale. Collaborates with product, data science, and backend engineers. | ShipData | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist II - AI for Analytics Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Scientist II to drive AI for Analytics, focusing on identifying promising opportunities, deploying AI systems in production, and improving product features with data science methods. The role requires strong collaboration, product roadmap creation, and the ability to build and deploy ML models into production. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Ads Auctions Senior Data Scientist role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing auction and bidding systems for Instacart's advertising marketplace. This involves building ML models for forecasting and optimization, running experiments, and applying expertise in causal inference and mechanism design to ensure a fair and efficient marketplace that benefits advertisers and consumers. | Agent | 7 |
| Ads AI Analyst Instacart is seeking an Ads AI Analyst to own the intelligence behind their Ads agents. The role involves defining the Ads semantic/context layer, building vertical AI agents to analyze campaigns and recommend actions, and partnering with various teams to ship production agents. Responsibilities include defining ontologies, building data models, ingesting and enriching content, designing RAG workflows, establishing evaluation suites, and running experiments to quantify impact. The role requires strong SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake, and Ads analytics expertise, with a focus on shipping AI systems that drive business impact. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager, Agentic Commerce Principal Product Manager for Instacart's Agentic Commerce team, focusing on building and launching 'Cart Assistant,' a consumer shopping agent powered by generative AI. This 0->1 role involves defining product strategy, roadmap, and execution, partnering with engineering, ML, and data science teams to deliver personalized conversational commerce experiences for consumers and retailers. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Growth Modeling Instacart is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II for their Growth Modeling team. This role will focus on developing and deploying ML/AI solutions for incentive optimization to drive business growth. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, defining roadmaps, mentoring team members, and partnering with cross-functional teams. Experience in causal modeling, LLMs, and reinforcement learning is preferred. | Ship | 7 |