Instacart
Grocery
SeniorSoftwareEngineerII,AILabs&Foundations
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“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
Full Job Description
We're transforming the grocery industry 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. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Join Instacart's mission to transform grocery shopping through frontier AI. As a Senior Software Engineer on AI Labs apply techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and vector search where appropriate. Own projects end-to-end: requirements, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and iterative improvement focused on reliability, latency, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, design, data science, and infrastructure to ship AI features end-to-end. Drive engineering excellence, including thoughtful system design, rigorous code review, and technical leadership that includes defining and promoting best practices for AI/ML production engineering across the team. About You Minimum Qualifications: Proven senior software engineer who has built, shipped, and operated production systems at scal
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