The opportunity
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community.
What you'll do
Design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions including data: pipelines, model architectures and serving integrations to tackle practical challenges in the ads organization.
Formulate and scope ambiguous modeling problems from first principles.: Translate business observations (e.g., miss-calibration patterns, cold-start underperformance) into well-defined ML research directions with clear evaluation criteria.
Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and: infrastructure engineers to deeply understand business needs and create impactful ML applications.
Push the envelope on our operational efficiency by continually refining and: advancing our algorithms and models.
Publish and present findings internally. Contribute to the team’s culture of: technical rigor through design reviews, paper sharing, and experiment retrospectives.
Have a graduate degree (masters or PhD) in machine learning, statistics,: computer science, information retrieval, or a closely related quantitative field.
What they're looking for
- Have strong programming skills and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Spark,: Pandas) and Machine Learning (classical ML and Deep Learning) tools.
- Have strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
- Are a strong communicator who can collaborate with diverse stakeholders across all levels.
- Have 1-2 years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets.
