Instacart

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Instacart is seeking a Trust & Safety Senior Associate, Information Security Ops to manage operational and program management tasks related to data privacy and information security. The role involves evaluating vendor practices, tracking metrics, assisting with audits, coordinating projects, and representing the team in company-wide initiatives. Responsibilities include building workflow documentation and automating tasks using AI agents, improving operational efficiency, and identifying success metrics. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in Trust & Safety or related fields, strong communication skills, and familiarity with information security and data privacy concepts.

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.

Senior Software Engineer II on the Logistics Foundation team at Instacart, focusing on building and operating scalable, reliable backend services for core logistics functions like pricing, routing, and dispatch. The role involves end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives, collaboration with cross-functional teams (including Legal and Finance for compliance), and driving the adoption of modern technologies and AI toolsets to improve engineering velocity and quality. Requires strong backend development experience, distributed systems knowledge, and experience with compliance-sensitive systems.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to shape financial data, driving innovation at the intersection of systems, analytics, and business strategy. The role involves architecting and delivering data models, pipelines, and reporting infrastructure for Finance and Accounting, ensuring data accuracy, reliability, and compliance. Responsibilities include collaborating across teams, accelerating month-end close, optimizing cloud spend, and leveraging AI technologies to enhance financial data modeling and delivery.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to shape financial data, driving innovation through systems, analytics, and business strategy. The role involves architecting data models, pipelines, and reporting infrastructure for Finance and Accounting, ensuring data accuracy, reliability, and compliance, while also optimizing cloud spend. The team focuses on delivering trusted financial data for compliance and strategic decision-making.

Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations at Instacart. This role focuses on building and operating the data infrastructure, including a modern open data lakehouse, multi-engine compute platform, and self-serve tooling. The engineer will own the architecture and delivery of the lakehouse foundation, governance, and compute strategy, balancing reliability with future scale and cost efficiency. A key aspect is pioneering AI-native data infrastructure engineering by applying LLM/AI tools to the platform lifecycle and embedding AI capabilities.

Staff Software Engineer to join Data Governance and Foundations Team. Owns architecture and delivery of open lakehouse foundation, governance and access patterns, and multi-engine compute strategy. Drives real-time and streaming infrastructure for critical use cases. Pioneers AI-native data infrastructure engineering by applying LLM/AI tools to the platform lifecycle and embedding AI-powered capabilities. Elevates engineering excellence through architecture reviews and mentorship.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on improving Instacart's search engine visibility and organic traffic. The role involves designing and building full-stack features, architecting scalable systems for traditional search and LLM visibility, and developing data pipelines. It requires leadership in SEO/AEO projects, partnership with marketing and product teams, and mentoring junior engineers. Experience with distributed systems, data engineering, and observability is expected.

Senior Software Engineer II on the Ads Data Solutions Engineering team, focusing on building core capabilities for Instacart's off-platform advertising, secure data collaboration (cleanrooms), automated taxonomy management, and associated platform foundations. The role involves technical leadership, modernizing data solutions infrastructure, scaling integrations, extending cleanroom capabilities, and automating workflows. It emphasizes AI-first engineering and building AI-powered internal tools.

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.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on backend development for Instacart's core user experience, enhancing recommendation and personalization systems in collaboration with ML engineers and data scientists. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend applications, leading the development roadmap, and owning major product components to improve customer shopping experiences.

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.

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.

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.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on Instacart's in-memory datastore infrastructure (Key-Value team). Responsibilities include innovating automated monitoring & control-plane systems, supporting database proxies, snapshotting, backups, and working with cloud providers. The team is also preparing for future growth with architectural shifts including distributed database systems, AI Agent-based monitoring and operations, and tiered database storage. The role involves owning and building foundational engineering components at massive scale, impacting stability, productivity, and cost management.

Staff Software Engineer for the Partnerships team, focusing on setting technical direction for building and scaling Embedded Instacart. This role involves shaping the architecture for new partner integrations, defining platform primitives, and working across various backend services. The engineer will collaborate with multiple teams, influence roadmaps, and have significant leadership scope, including direct partner-engineering exposure.

Staff Software Engineer, Partnerships at Instacart will set the technical direction for building and scaling Embedded Instacart over the next several years. The role involves shaping the architecture for new partner integrations, defining platform primitives for fast, resilient, and consistent launches, and working across a broad backend surface area. This is a highly visible, cross-org role with meaningful leadership scope, requiring direct partner-engineering exposure and influencing roadmaps across multiple teams.

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.

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.

Staff Software Engineer, Web at Instacart, focusing on the web platform architecture for customer discovery, search, and personalization. The role involves setting technical direction, building features, improving performance and SEO, and partnering with ML teams to surface real-time recommendations. Requires deep expertise in modern web technologies and large-scale web platforms, with a focus on mentoring and influencing technical strategy.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II for their Finance Data Engineering team, which is part of the Data Infrastructure team. This role focuses on supporting monthly/quarterly book close, retailer invoicing, and financial reporting by defining how financial data is modeled and standardized. The position involves owning critical data integration pipelines and models, working closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to translate their needs into scalable data solutions. The team is small and initiatives are in early stages, offering significant ownership and autonomy to shape the Finance Data Strategy and build the financial data infrastructure. Responsibilities include mentoring, driving organization-wide initiatives, and ensuring data accuracy and reliability.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II for their Finance Data Engineering team, which is part of the Data Infrastructure team. This role focuses on supporting monthly/quarterly book close, retailer invoicing, and financial reporting by defining how financial data is modeled and standardized. The engineer will own critical data integration pipelines and models, working closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to translate their needs into reliable and scalable data solutions. The role involves shaping systems from design to execution, driving the Finance Data Strategy, and building the financial data infrastructure platform. Mentorship and driving organization-wide initiatives are also key aspects.

Manager, Legal Technology & Operations at Instacart, responsible for the strategy and execution of technology and operational initiatives to support the legal department and broader business functions. This role focuses on automating legal processes, implementing and optimizing legal technology systems, and driving cost savings through procurement and vendor management. It requires strong project management, systems integration, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Instacart is seeking an iOS Engineer II to develop and enhance iOS applications for their B2B ecommerce solutions. The role involves creating innovative mobile features for business clients, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the expansion of Instacart's B2B offerings. The engineer will be responsible for the full product development lifecycle, from conception to deployment, and will work on strategic initiatives to improve platform capabilities and business value.

Instacart is seeking an iOS Engineer II to develop and enhance iOS applications for their B2B ecommerce solutions. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and ship new features, participate in project roadmaps, and engage in code reviews to ensure high software quality. The engineer will work on strategic initiatives to enhance the platform's capabilities and business value, contributing to Instacart's expansion in the B2B ecommerce domain.

Instacart is seeking a Trust & Safety Senior Associate, Information Security Ops to manage operational and program management tasks related to data privacy and information security. This role involves evaluating vendor practices, tracking metrics, assisting with audits, coordinating projects, and representing the team in company-wide initiatives. Responsibilities include building workflow documentation, automating tasks using AI agents, improving operational efficiency, and identifying success metrics. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, risk, legal, or policy operations, with a strong understanding of information security and data privacy concepts.

Staff Technical Program Manager to lead Instacart's global enterprise fulfillment platform, focusing on technical strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment across multiple engineering organizations and international teams. Requires fluency in Spanish and experience managing complex, ambiguous programs.

Instacart's Detection Engineering team is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to build and operate systems that identify and respond to threats on their platform. The role involves developing detection logic, hunting for attacker techniques, optimizing data pipelines, and automating response actions. Experience with cloud platforms, attacker TTPs, and detection-as-code is required.

Instacart's Advertiser Optimization team is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist II to lead the algorithmic direction of their advertising business systems. This role focuses on optimizing bidding, pacing, budgeting, and targeting to maximize advertiser value while balancing user experience and platform revenue. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in control theory, optimization, and auction economics, with experience translating mathematical models into production code that handles millions of decisions daily.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Data Governance & Foundations team. This role focuses on building and operating core systems for the company's data ecosystem, including a large-scale data lakehouse, ingestion, stream processing, and self-serve tooling. The engineer will define multi-year architecture roadmaps, own platform initiatives, partner with vendors, embed governance and compliance controls, optimize infrastructure spend, and mentor other engineers. The role requires 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure or distributed systems, with expertise in modern data lakehouse architectures, event-driven infrastructure (Kafka, Flink), and distributed query systems (Trino, Spark). Experience with data governance frameworks and FinOps is preferred.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 10+ engineers for their Carrot Ads platform. This role will focus on platform stability, reliability, partner onboarding, and forward-looking product development. The manager will evaluate technical capabilities, prototype new features, and shape the platform's strategy in partnership with Product, Sales, and enterprise partners. Experience in ad tech, retail media, or publisher-facing platforms is required, along with proficiency in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Instacart is seeking an Implementation Specialist to provide in-store support for Caper Cart deployments, focusing on testing, training reinforcement, and launch execution. This role involves ensuring carts are functional, supporting store teams, and troubleshooting issues to ensure successful launches of AI-powered carts.

Instacart is seeking an On the Ground Specialist (Contractor) to support the in-store operational success of Caper Carts, which are smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision. This client-facing role involves planning and launching new pilots, collaborating with Caper's operations, product, and business teams, and providing on-site observation to identify and resolve operational challenges. The specialist will also conduct technical testing and troubleshooting, utilize performance metrics for continuous improvement, and document processes. The role requires retail experience, comfort with technology troubleshooting, and strong communication skills.

Senior Software Engineer II, Page Builder (Retailer Platform) at Instacart. This role focuses on evolving Instacart's content infrastructure, including extracting a Content Management Domain (CMD) from a Ruby monolith into a Go service, designing APIs, and developing a composable content architecture. A key aspect is enabling AI agents to create, preview, QA, and publish pages end-to-end, integrating LLM-powered content creation and agentic page management into the platform.

Instacart is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to own and evolve the marketing analytics data foundation. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining data models using dbt, partnering with Data Scientists and Analysts, and providing technical leadership in analytics engineering best practices. The role will also support ML & AI-driven marketing applications by building curated datasets.

Staff Software Engineer to shape and advance a robust data platform for Instacart Ads, focusing on data compliance, integrity, and self-service capabilities. The role involves designing and building systems for metrics transformation, storage, billing, spam detection, and lift testing, supporting data-driven decisions across the organization.