Senior Engineering Manager, Search

🕒 June 4

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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

• Own the team's technical strategy, roadmap, and goals across Single and Cross retailer search • Drive top-line growth while holding a strict quality bar • Champion the use of LLMs in search • Partner with the platform team to design and ship search architecture • Double the team's experimentation velocity by investing in evaluation, AI-native debugging tooling, and ML foundations • Partner closely with ML, Product, Data Science, Ads, and whitelabel retailer teams

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams • Minimum 10+ years of total engineering experience • Direct experience building or leading search, recommendations, ranking, or other applied ML systems • Familiarity with modern retrieval techniques, including neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, and LLM-based query understanding or re-ranking • Strong technical depth across machine learning and large-scale distributed/backend systems • Track record of driving complex, cross-functional technical programs from strategy through launch • Demonstrated product and business judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants • Flex First remote work policy