Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Economist

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $180k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions for economic challenges in Instacart’s complex marketplace • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to understand business needs and create impactful solutions • Refine and advance algorithms and models to improve operational efficiency • Share learnings, best practices, and research across Economics team domains • Apply economic theory, econometrics, and machine learning to marketplace problems including incentives, pricing, product placement, matching, logistics, advertising, uplift, long-term value modeling, and causal inference

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate Degree (Masters or PhD) in Economics or a closely related field • Experience applying causal inference methodologies to observational and experimental datasets • Understanding of machine learning algorithms and techniques • Strong Python programming skills • Fluency in SQL and Pandas for data manipulation • Fluency with machine learning tools such as scikit-learn and XGBoost • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Self-motivation and strong ownership • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I, Economist hires: 1–3 years of industry experience in a similar position • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I, Economist hires: experience putting machine learning models into production environments • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I, Economist hires: experience with cloud computing and related ML infrastructure • Preferred: PhD in Economics or closely related field focused on data-intense problems • Preferred: intern experience in related roles • Preferred: experience with large language models and generative AI • Preferred: experience with uplift modeling, contextual bandits, and/or heterogeneous treatment effect estimation

🏖️ Benefits

• New hire equity grant • Annual refresh equity grants • Flexible work location: home, office, or coffee shop • Regular in-person events • Market-competitive compensation and benefits