Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

🕒 March 27

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $201k - $253k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

eCommerce • Transport • Retail

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

• Lead and grow a team of ~10 ML and AI infrastructure engineers building the perception and reasoning systems that power Caper Carts in live retail environments • Define the technical vision, roadmap, and success metrics for cart perception and multimodal understanding; prioritize work that drives measurable gains in item recognition accuracy, checkout speed, and system reliability • Architect scalable training, data, and inference platforms on GCP using Ray, Kubernetes, and modern MLOps practices to enable rapid experimentation and safe, repeatable deployments • Deliver production-grade CV/VLM models for multi-camera item detection, weighing, and basket reasoning; optimize on-device inference for low-latency, high-availability operation at the edge • Build the data flywheel end-to-end—instrumentation, labeling, evaluation, offline/online testing, and monitoring—to continuously improve performance across diverse store conditions • Collaborate cross-functionally with Android, hardware, product, design, operations, and retailer partners; communicate risks, tradeoffs, and timelines clearly in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems, with a strong focus on computer vision in production environments • 2+ years of experience managing teams of 6+ ML/AI engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development • Hands-on expertise with deep learning (e.g., PyTorch), model training/evaluation, and MLOps practices for reliable CI/CD of ML services • Proven experience architecting and operating ML infrastructure on GCP (e.g., GKE, Vertex AI, BigQuery) and distributed training/inference with Ray; containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes • Experience delivering real-time edge inference, including model optimization (e.g., TensorRT, ONNX, quantization) and monitoring for latency, throughput, and accuracy • Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a track record of shipping end-to-end CV systems including data pipelines, experimentation, deployment, and post-launch iteration • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work • Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants