Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Overview

About the Role: As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will utilize your extensive technical knowledge to address and solve critical, complex issues in our marketplace systems. You will apply machine learning to create and optimize solutions in impactful areas such as routing optimization, pricing, dispatch and mapping. You will be at the forefront of initiatives, overseeing them from the initial concept stage all the way through to prototyping and implementation, in addition to conducting experiments.

About the Team: The Logistics & ML group is responsible for the intelligence and execution behind Instacart’s fulfillment system. The team optimizes a multi-sided marketplace to ensure customers get their orders on-time and in high quality, shoppers get efficient and fulfilling work, and retailers and consumer brands get reasonable business. The team tackles hard problems in a variety of spaces, such as matching, pricing, and geospatial, as well as foundational problems executing on a high throughput system with dynamic data.

About the Job:

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions to tackle practical challenges in the marketplace.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and backend engineers to deeply understand business needs and create impactful ML applications.
• Actively engage with diverse stakeholders to ensure that solutions are well-integrated and aligned with business goals.
• Push the envelope on our operational efficiency by continually refining and advancing our algorithms and models.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• Have a graduate degree (masters or PhD) in artificial intelligence, machine learning, operations research or equivalent self study and experience 
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have 6+ years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems with large datasets
• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks and methodologies
• Experience in applying machine learning and optimization techniques to solve marketplace problems
• Proven track record as a tech lead or team leader, managing and driving forward complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders

Last updated on Aug 20, 2024