Remote
US
$188K–$235K
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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Quality
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.
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.
About the Role
Are you excited about applying cutting-edge AI / ML models and technologies at the forefront of digital advertising? Are you inspired to deliver tangible, quantifiable impact to tens of millions of users and partners, while solving some of the toughest optimization challenges in a 4-sided marketplace? Are you passionate about mentoring and growing ML engineering talent, while instilling and fostering a principled engineering culture? If so, we have a job for you! The Ads Engineering team is looking for a seasoned ML engineering leader to act as the Area Tech Lead of Ads Quality. In this role, you will directly contribute to the company’s myriad of AI, ML, and Quality innovations, both as an Individual Contributor and Technical Lead. You will lead the team to design next-generation, AI-powered solutions to support the business’ broadening growth. You will partner with Eng and PM leadership to prioritize and support all product needs. You will develop company-defining collaborations with other engineering pillars across Instacart. You will grow and mentor engineers, and contribute to shaping engineering culture not only for Ads but for all of Instacart.
The Ads Engineering team builds E2E, full-stack systems to power Instacart’s industry-leading ads innovations in digital ads’ top growing channel - Retail Media. As a fast-growing, critical piece of Instacart’s overall business, the Ads Engineering team strives to both meet and support our advertiser partners for their needs today, while also challenging the status quo to push forward next-generation technologies. The team consists of a broad spectrum of engineers across all levels, with expertise ranging from backend infrastructure to data engineering to machine learning & AI to frontend technologies and more.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
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.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
USD 313,000 - 330,500
Annually
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Mental Health Benefits
Wellness Programs
401(k) / Retirement Plan
401(k) Match
Equity / RSUs
Fertility Benefits
Parental Leave
Flexible Schedule
Employee Resource Groups
Learning & Development Budget
Home Office Stipend
Unlimited PTO
Company Shutdown Days
Sabbatical
Volunteer Time Off
Charity Matching
Company Equipment
