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SeniorSoftwareEngineerII,AILabs&Foundations
“Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations at Instacart. Skills: AI/ML production, LLM features, vector search, end-to-end ownership. Own projects end-to-end. requirements”
What You'll Achieve.
reliability; latency; cost efficiency; ship AI features end-to-end
Industry & Context.
get to the right answer
on-call participation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proven senior software engineer, built, shipped, and operated production systems at scale, Hands-on experience with AI or ML in production, shipped LLM-powered features, integrated foundation model APIs into a live product, Experience owning services end-to-end, CI/CD, automated testing, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), on-call participation
Nice to Have
5 to 8+ years of industry experience, track record of 0-to-1 work, Experience building conversational agents, multi-turn dialogue systems, agentic LLM applications, Experience with STT/TTS, natural language interfaces, LLM fine tuning, ML transfer learning, model training, vocabulary of measurement of model performance, Experience with embedding systems, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), event-driven or distributed systems (e.g., Kafka), Demonstrated mentorship, technical leadership within cross-functional teams
What You'll Do.
Own projects end-to-end
iterative improvement
Drive engineering excellence
define best practices
promote best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with cross-functional partners; partners well across disciplines; technical leadership within cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
communicator; partners well across disciplines
Process & Methodology
Own projects end-to-end
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