Instacart is looking to transform the grocery industry by reimagining its core consumer experience with AI, tackling growth bets such as generative recommendation systems, hyper-personalized marketing content, and unique customer experiences.
Requirements
- Expertise in Generative AI technologies, including prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and familiarity with emerging AI trends and AIQA processes.
- Strong background in traditional machine learning and deep learning fundamentals, with hands-on experience building efficient models using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Professional software development skills, including building data pipelines (SQL/Spark), managing CI/CD workflows, and deploying models into production environments.
- Experience building scalable ranking and recommendation systems.
- Application of ML models within an e-commerce environment.
- Cloud infrastructure expertise (e.g., AWS, GCP), particularly in managing large GPU workloads for training and inference.
Responsibilities
- Build the team vision: Partner with cross-functional leaders to define key business challenges and design AI-first solutions that unlock substantial value for customers and stakeholders.
- Drive hands-on execution: Lead the development of personalized content and recommendation systems by leveraging a mix of generative and traditional machine learning architectures to drive core business outcomes.
- Deploy AI systems at scale: Drive end-to-end software development, including building ML services, agentic workflows, managing experiment lifecycles, and deploying production-ready AI solutions at scale.
- Innovate: Stay at the cutting edge of AI innovation by conducting literature reviews and exploring novel paradigms in recommendation systems (RecSys). Identify opportunities for customization and apply these advancements to meet Instacart’s unique needs.
- Elevate the team: Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering learning, engagement, and technical growth within the team.
Other
- Product-focused mindset with a bias for action and proven ability to define and solve complex business problems through cross-functional collaboration.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and translate technical insights into actionable business strategies.
- An innovation-driven mindset, rooted in curiosity and a passion for pushing the boundaries of applied AI.
- Demonstrated success as a technical leader, with the proven ability to guide teams toward strategic, high-impact outcomes.
- Technical influence evidenced by contributions to blogs, published papers, or industry thought leadership.
