Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs – Foundations

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $192k - $242.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack 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

• Design, build, and operate production AI-powered systems and agentic experiences including Cart Assistant and voice AI • Build foundational systems for AI experiences, including embedding infrastructure, voice AI pipelines, client-facing components, and integrations • Prototype bold ideas and productize successful concepts • Integrate foundation models through APIs and open-source frameworks • Apply retrieval-augmented generation and vector search where appropriate • Own projects end-to-end, including requirements, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and iterative improvement • Optimize systems for reliability, latency, and cost efficiency • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, ML, and Infrastructure teams • Drive engineering excellence through system design, code review, technical leadership, and AI/ML production engineering best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Proven senior software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating production systems at scale • Hands-on experience with AI or ML in production • Experience shipping LLM-powered features or integrating foundation model APIs into a live product • Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and on-call participation • Experience with Golang, Python, or Typescript • Ability to leverage AI development tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude • Preferred: 5 to 8+ years of industry experience • Preferred: Experience with conversational agents, multi-turn dialogue systems, or agentic LLM applications • Preferred: Experience with STT/TTS, natural language interfaces, LLM fine tuning, transfer learning, model training, and model performance measurement • Preferred: Experience with embedding systems, vector search, RAG, and vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, or Elasticsearch • Preferred: Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka • Preferred: Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership

🏖️ Benefits

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