Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Digital Twin PlatformPosted today

The opportunity

The Digital Twin Platform team at Instacart is on a mission to understand exactly what is on store shelves at all times — bringing the precision and depth of a smart warehouse to every local grocery store across North America. Inventory estimates power some of the most critical…

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that power real-time: understanding of in-store inventory levels and shelf stocking dynamics across thousands of retail locations at scale.

  • Own the full ML lifecycle: from problem framing and data exploration through model training, evaluation, and production deployment — with a focus on quality, reliability, and measurable business impact.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, computer vision: engineers, data scientists, and product leads to bring cutting-edge technologies to the team and drive new product innovation.

  • Contribute to building and evolving the core infrastructure of the Digital: Twin Platform, including systems that ingest data from retail partners and actively collect novel inventory observations to feed the modeling pipeline.

  • Help define the technical direction of an expanding modeling practice on a: high-performance team that operates with startup speed — expect ambiguity, changing priorities, and the opportunity to make a significant mark on a problem space that is core to Instacart's business.

  • + years of experience developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments.

What they're looking for

  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
  • Demonstrated experience with large-scale data pipelines and working with: structured and unstructured data at scale.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity: with ML platform tooling for model training, versioning, and serving.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning,: Statistics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.