Instacart

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.

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.

Senior Product Manager for Fraud & Trust at Instacart, focusing on strategy and execution for fraud detection, identity verification, and appeasements. The role involves evolving a real-time ML-powered decision platform and shaping an AI-native fraud defense strategy to balance cost efficiency with customer experience. Key responsibilities include owning the product vision, driving AI/ML innovations, and collaborating with Data Science and ML Engineering.

Senior Product Manager for Fraud & Trust at Instacart, focusing on strategy and execution for fraud detection, identity verification, and appeasements. The role involves evolving a real-time ML-powered decision platform and shaping an AI-native fraud defense strategy to balance cost efficiency with customer experience. Key responsibilities include owning the product vision, driving AI/ML innovations, and collaborating with Data Science and ML Engineering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 Product Designer II for Instacart's Health & Meals pod, focusing on personalized consumer experiences integrating meal planning, nutrition, and allergy management. The role involves leading end-to-end design for AI-powered, agentic grocery experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and shaping new 0->1 features. Requires expertise in consumer-facing digital product design, interaction/visual design, and experience with AI-assisted prototyping.

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.