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Work type: remote
Location: USA - Remote
Salary: $240,000 – $253,000/yr
Type: Full-time
You're a seasoned Machine Learning Engineer looking to drive major initiatives and mentor a team. This role is for someone with a proven track record in developing production-ready ML/AI solutions that significantly impact business growth, particularly in incentive optimization. **What makes it worth a look...** This is a fully remote Senior Machine Learning Engineer II position at Instacart, offering an annual salary range of $201,000 to $253,000, depending on location. The role focuses on the incentive space to drive substantial business growth within the Growth organization. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have a proven track record in identifying high-impact opportunities and driving end-to-end ML/AI solution execution. - Possess strong skills in analytics, modeling, and programming. - Have experience in incentive or pricing optimization. - Have experience with causal modeling, LLM, and reinforcement learning.
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. [Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.](https://www.instacart.careers/flex-first)
OverviewAbout the Role:
We are hiring a tech lead who will drive major initiatives, identify impactful opportunities, define roadmaps, mentor team members, and develop ML/AI solutions in the incentive space to drive substantial business growth.
We are the ML team within Instacart’s Growth org - a fast-moving, results-driven group building production-ready ML/AI systems to optimize incentive allocation. We tackle unique, high-impact problems, value bottom-up ideas, and partner closely with Product, Marketing, Data Science, and Backend Engineering to drive growth.
About the Job:
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings [here](https://instacart.careers/taste-of-instacart/).
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$240,000—$253,000 USD
WA
$230,000—$243,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$221,000—$233,000 USD
All other states
$201,000—$212,000 USD