Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Digital Twin Platform @Instacart

Overview

The Digital Twin Platform team at Instacart is focused on understanding inventory levels across local grocery stores, leveraging data for enhanced logistics and product offerings. The company seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to develop machine learning models for real-time inventory observation and analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for real-time inventory understanding across thousands of retail locations.
• Own the full machine learning lifecycle from problem framing to deployment, ensuring quality and measurable business impact.
• Collaborate with software engineers, computer vision engineers, data scientists, and product leads to drive product innovation.
• Contribute to the core infrastructure of the Digital Twin Platform and manage novel inventory observations feeding the modeling pipeline.
• Help define the technical direction of the modeling practice within a fast-paced team environment.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in developing and deploying machine learning models in production.
• Strong proficiency in Python with experience in ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines, handling both structured and unstructured data.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and ML platform tools for training, versioning, and serving models.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with computer vision, inventory forecasting, or related modeling problems.
• Familiarity with real-time inference systems and serving ML models in low-latency environments.
• Background in project management within fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of inventory data flows in retail, supply chain, or e-commerce.
• Collaborative experience with computer vision teams or integrating vision-based signals into ML systems.

Benefits

Instacart offers competitive compensation and benefits, including a potential equity grant.

Location

This role is remote but hiring is restricted to candidates in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply through the Instacart career page.

Deadline

No specific deadline mentioned.