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 (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 |
| Senior Data Scientist II - Core Delivery Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Scientist II for their Core Delivery team. The role involves identifying strategic opportunities to enhance the delivery experience, designing and executing experiments, leveraging geospatial data and advanced analytical techniques to optimize delivery, and developing solutions for high-risk delivery scenarios. The position requires strong data science and ML experience, SQL, and Python/R proficiency, with preferred experience in geospatial analysis. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering Senior Software Engineer II on the Ads Data Solutions Engineering team at Instacart. This role focuses on building core capabilities for off-platform advertising, secure data collaboration (cleanrooms), automated taxonomy management, and platform foundations. The engineer will co-own the technical roadmap, modernize data solutions infrastructure, scale integrations, extend cleanroom capabilities, and automate taxonomy workflows. The role emphasizes AI-first engineering, cross-team collaboration, and developer productivity, with responsibilities including technical leadership, pillar execution, product quality, privacy, security, and mentorship. | Data | 5 |
| Catalog Operations Analyst II Instacart is seeking a Catalog Operations Analyst II to drive data quality and enrichment for the Health and Meals pillar. This role involves designing and operationalizing LLM pipelines, performing SQL analyses, managing external vendors, and partnering with cross-functional teams to improve product data across the Instacart ecosystem. The ideal candidate has experience in catalog operations, data quality, SQL, and familiarity with LLMs and prompt design. | DataPost-train | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Shopper Activation & Engagement Staff Software Engineer for Instacart's Shopper Activation & Engagement team, focusing on the technical strategy and architecture for shopper onboarding, engagement, and compliance. The role involves leading product strategy, owning critical compliance systems, managing cross-functional programs, mentoring engineers, and improving service reliability. A key aspect is hands-on experience building AI tooling or agentic automation and integrating AI into developer workflows or product features, alongside designing compliant systems for identity and eligibility. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II, Technical Search Visibility Software Engineer II on the Technical Search Visibility team at Instacart, focused on enhancing search engine visibility and driving organic traffic. The role involves building full-stack features for SEO and AEO, contributing to data pipelines, and collaborating with marketing and product teams. The position requires proficiency in React, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL, with a strong product mindset and experience in distributed systems and data engineering. | — | 1 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Shopper Activation & Engagement Staff Software Engineer for Instacart's Shopper Activation & Engagement team, focusing on technical strategy and architecture for shopper onboarding, waitlist management, supply levers, and compliance systems. The role involves leading cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and ensuring scalable, safe, and compliant solutions. Experience with AI tooling and AI-augmented development workflows is required. | — | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Developer Experience team. This role focuses on building and improving the frameworks, tooling, and platforms that enable engineers to ship high-quality software efficiently and safely. Responsibilities include designing and evolving core developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and test infrastructure, driving improvements in engineering velocity and reliability, and establishing guardrails for secure development. The role requires strong collaboration skills and experience in building and operating production systems and developer tooling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform Instacart's Backend Platform team builds the shared Go-based foundation that powers services across their marketplace, advertising, partner, and fulfillment domains. They create frameworks, libraries, tooling, and standards to help product teams ship reliable, secure, and high-performance services at scale. This Senior Software Engineer role will design and deliver the next-generation platform enabling their future service architecture in Go, partnering with SRE, Security, Infra, and product engineering teams to define best practices, accelerate developer productivity, and raise the reliability and performance bar across the company. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Core Experience This role focuses on improving backend systems for a consumer-facing platform, specifically enhancing content discoverability and purchase processes. The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of backend architectures to support recommendation and personalization systems, collaborating with ML engineers, product teams, and data scientists. The core responsibilities include designing and building backend applications, leading the roadmap for scalability and reliability, and developing data-driven features that adapt to customer shopping behaviors. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Ads Senior Software Engineer for Instacart's Ads team, focusing on building and evolving world-class reporting solutions. This role involves processing petabyte-scale data to deliver essential reports for billing, strategic decision-making, and partner management. The engineer will contribute to scalable ETLs, data architecture, and support critical systems like billing and attribution, working with technologies like Scala-Spark, Airflow, DBT, Python, and Go. | — | 0 |
| Measurement Science Manager II Instacart is seeking an experienced analytics professional for their Measurement Science Team in Media Analytics. The role focuses on developing sophisticated measurement solutions to demonstrate advertising effectiveness on the Instacart platform using multi-retailer 1st party deterministic data. Responsibilities include designing and executing advanced experiments, analyzing data, tailoring measurement approaches, partnering with stakeholders on media measurement strategies, presenting findings to senior clients, and developing customized analytical solutions. Requires a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, 6+ years of experience in data/measurement or consulting, and 3+ years in advertising efficacy/measurement/experimentation. Strong SQL and statistical programming (Python/R) skills are essential. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Analyst, Fraud and Identity Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join their Fraud and Identity team. This role will focus on leveraging data analytics to identify and mitigate fraud, abuse, and identity-related risks within payments and billing processes. Responsibilities include monitoring KPIs, developing dashboards, analyzing shopper behavior for anomalies, designing and conducting A/B tests, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires strong SQL, R/Python skills, and experience with visualization tools. | — | 0 |
| Senior Corporate Engineer II Instacart is seeking a Senior Corporate Engineer II to manage and enhance their security-critical workforce platforms, including Okta identity, device trust, and office networks. This role involves owning architecture, security, and operations, designing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, leading incident response, and partnering with Security and Compliance teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in IAM, enterprise networking, Okta administration, and automation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Corporate Engineer II Instacart is seeking a Senior Corporate Engineer II to manage and enhance their security-critical workforce platforms, including Okta identity, device trust, and office networks. This role involves owning architecture, security, and operations, designing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, leading incident response, and partnering with Security and Compliance teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in IAM, enterprise networking, Okta administration, and automation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Android Engineer, Growth Senior Android Engineer for Instacart's Growth Lifecycle Incentives team, focusing on building and maintaining coupon experiences. The role involves end-to-end ownership of features, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a focus on performance, quality, and user experience. | — | 0 |