[Hiring] Senior Machine Learning Engineer @Instacart

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a strong Operations Research background to join the Service Availability & Routing team within Instacart's Logistics organization. In this role, you will work at the intersection of combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, and AI to solve high-impact problems in the fulfillment space — including:

• Order batching
• Shopper routing
• Service availability prediction
• Real-time assignment

You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and data science to ship models and algorithms that directly influence Instacart's profitability and shopper experience at scale.

The Logistics & ML group is responsible for the intelligence and execution behind Instacart’s fulfillment system. The team optimizes a multi-sided marketplace to ensure:

• Customers get their orders on-time and in high quality
• Shoppers get efficient and fulfilling work
• Retailers and consumer brands get reasonable business

The team tackles hard problems in a variety of spaces, such as:

• Matching
• Pricing
• Geospatial

As well as foundational problems executing on a high throughput system with dynamic data.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree (masters or PhD) in Operations Research or Industrial Engineering
• 3+ years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and Machine Learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Strong communicator who can collaborate with diverse stakeholders across all levels

Requirements

• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks and methodologies
• Experience in applying machine learning and optimization techniques to solve marketplace problems

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work flexibility
• New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants

Company Description

Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by inviting the world to share love through food. We believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward.

Instacart is a Flex First team, allowing employees to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or a favorite coffee shop—while staying connected through regular in-person events.