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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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[Hiring] Senior Machine Learning Engineer @Instacart
Mar 18, 2025 - Instacart is hiring a remote Senior Machine Learning Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: $203,000 - $225,000 cad. đź“ŤLocation: Canada.
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Role Description
This is a general posting for multiple Sr. Machine Learning roles open across our 4-sided marketplace. You’ll get the chance to learn about the problems the different ML teams solve as you go through the process. Towards the end of your process, we’ll do a team-matching exercise to determine which of the open roles/teams you’ll join.
About the Team:
- The Search and Discovery ML team at Instacart is at the forefront of applying cutting-edge AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs), to revolutionize how customers find products.
- Working alongside world-class engineers, data scientists, and product managers, we're building sophisticated machine learning and AI systems that power the future of search and recommendations at Instacart.
- Our team leverages state-of-the-art transformer architectures, multimodal AI, and generative models to enhance relevance across all shopping surfaces.
- We're constantly innovating with advanced neural retrieval methods, LLM-powered ranking algorithms, and AI-driven personalization systems.
- As part of our team, you'll tackle one of the most critical aspects of the business—helping customers connect with exactly the right products through AI.
- We're solving complex, large-scale search challenges using the latest in deep learning, natural language understanding, and LLM fine-tuning techniques.
- Our commitment to AI innovation is reflected in our recent publications and research contributions to the field.
About the Job:
- Design, develop, and deploy advanced AI and machine learning solutions, including LLMs and neural networks, to solve complex challenges in our dynamic marketplace environment.
- Architect and implement state-of-the-art deep learning systems that leverage transformer models, multimodal AI, and generative techniques.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and backend engineers to translate business requirements into cutting-edge AI applications.
- Pioneer the application of foundation models, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning methodologies.
- Engage with diverse stakeholders to ensure our AI solutions are ethically implemented and well-integrated with existing systems.
- Drive continuous innovation in our AI infrastructure by researching, testing, and implementing the latest advancements in machine learning.
- Push the boundaries of operational efficiency through intelligent automation, predictive modeling, and algorithmic optimization.
Qualifications
- Have a graduate degree (masters or PhD) in artificial intelligence, machine learning or equivalent self-study and experience.
- Have 7+ years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets.
- Have strong programming skills in Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and Machine Learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools.
- Have strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
- Are a strong communicator who can collaborate with diverse stakeholders across all levels.
Requirements
- Extensive expertise with modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) and advanced LLM architectures.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and fine-tuning large language models, including prompt engineering and efficient inference optimization.
- Strong foundation in AI fundamentals including neural network architectures, generative models, and foundation model adaptation methodologies.
- Proven track record designing and deploying sophisticated ML/AI systems in production environments.
- Experience optimizing AI model performance across the full stack.
- Self-motivated innovator with a strong sense of ownership.
- Passion for applying cutting-edge AI research to real-world applications.
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
- Remote work flexibility.
- New hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
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Software Development
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$203,000 - $225,000 cad
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Canada
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Posted
Mar 18, 2025
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