Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Economist

🕒 August 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $173k - $218.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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Instacart

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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

• Build state-of-the-art machine learning systems combining economic theory with machine learning algorithms • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions for economic challenges in Instacart’s 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 • Work on marketplace incentives, pricing, product placement, matching and logistics, online advertising, uplift and long-term value modeling, and causal inference

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate Degree (Masters or PhD) in Economics or a closely related field • Blend of economic theory, applied econometrics, and business skills • Experience applying causal inference methodologies to observational and experimental datasets • Understanding of machine learning algorithms and techniques • Strong programming skills in Python • Fluency in SQL and Pandas • Experience with machine learning tools such as scikit-learn and XGBoost • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Self-motivation and strong sense of ownership • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I: 1-3 years of industry experience in a similar position • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I: experience putting machine learning models into production environments • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I: 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

• Flex First work policy: employees can choose to work from home, an office, or a coffee shop • Regular in-person events • New hire equity grant • Annual refresh equity grants • Market-competitive compensation and benefits