Instacart
Consumer · Grocery delivery
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2012
- Website
- instacart.com
Currently tracking 24 active AI roles, with 45 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $161k–$331k (avg $225k).
Consumer · Grocery delivery
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Data Scientist - Shopping Experience (Search) |
| 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 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 |
| Data Science Manager, Shopping Experience Instacart is seeking a Data Science Manager to lead a team focused on the end-to-end consumer shopping journey. This role will shape the analytics and experimentation strategy across various shopper surfaces, partnering with Product, Engineering, and other teams to define metrics, improve experiment design, and deliver insights that enhance conversion, retention, and satisfaction. The manager will also collaborate with ML partners on AI features, ensuring they are grounded in robust data and measurement frameworks. | Ship | 5 |
| Data Science Manager, Shopping Experience Instacart is seeking a Data Science Manager to lead a team focused on the end-to-end consumer shopping journey. This role will shape analytics and experimentation strategy across various shopper surfaces, partner with cross-functional teams, and ensure AI/agentic features are grounded in data and measurement. The ideal candidate has experience managing data scientists, optimizing consumer app experiences, and expertise in experimentation and measurement. | Ship | 5 |
| Director, Growth Creative Director of Growth Creative to lead the creative vision that powers Instacart's growth. This role blends compelling storytelling with data-driven strategy to create work that resonates and converts across all paid and owned channels. The director will harness real-time analytics, experimentation, and AI to unlock new levels of creative innovation at scale, build and inspire a team, and architect systems and workflows for high-volume creative production. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer II, Core Experience Senior Software Engineer II, Core Experience at Instacart, focusing on backend systems for recommendation and personalization to enhance the customer shopping journey. Collaborates with ML engineers and data scientists to build data-driven features. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist (I & II) This role focuses on applying AI and ML to enhance Instacart's consumer-facing products, particularly in areas like ads auctions, search relevance, and analytics. The Senior Data Scientist will own analytical frameworks, design experiments, develop statistical and ML models, and influence product roadmaps to improve marketplace efficiency, customer experience, and business outcomes. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to deploy AI/ML systems in production and drive data-informed decision-making. | Ship | 5 |