Machine Learning Intern, Economics – Fall

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $42 - $50 / hour

👨‍🎓 Internship

⚪️ Entry-level

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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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

• You will help design and build end-to-end machine learning solutions. • You will be working in small and cross-functional product teams, with great opportunities for growth and ownership of projects. • You will be an active member of an internal community, including economists, data scientists, operations research scientists and machine learning engineers, sharing learnings, best practices and research across many domains. • You will develop high impact solutions to support Instacart's ambitious growth plans. • You will work closely with engineers, product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to recommending a solution and testing it in controlled experiments. • You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• Current or recently graduated PhD student in economics or a related field with focus on data-intense problems. • A blend of economic theory, applied econometrics, and business acumen that let you jump into a fast-paced environment and contribute from day one. • Expertise in causal inference with observational and experimental data. • Expertise in Python or R and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and machine learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools. • Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work • Please read more about our benefits offerings here.