Forward Deployed EngineerActive

The opportunity

Instacart's Enterprise Solutions team is building a first-of-its-kind business: embedding directly with enterprise retail and CPG partners to design, sell, and deliver AI-powered solutions at scale. We are a small, senior, field-first pod — part startup, part consultancy — defining the playbook as we go.

What you'll do

  • Embed with enterprise retail customers and partners to understand their: technical environments, data systems, and business workflows.

  • Design, build, and deploy AI and agentic solutions tailored to each: customer's specific infrastructure and needs, across Instacart's full platform suite.

  • Extend, adapt, and integrate Instacart's core AI capabilities to fit customer: ecosystems, even when those systems are undocumented or non-standard.

  • Maintain a close working relationship with R&D: participate in product reviews, flag platform gaps encountered in the field, and propose concrete changes that would make the platform work better for enterprise customers.

  • Collaborate closely with the AI Solutions Architect to translate domain: requirements and architecture into working software.

  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers during implementation engagements.

What they're looking for

  • Prior work in a forward deployed, embedded engineering, or professional services capacity.
  • Background at a startup or early-stage company where you wore multiple hats.
  • Experience in enterprise software implementation, systems integration, or solutions engineering.
  • Exposure to retail tech, e-commerce, or supply chain systems.