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Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America that works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. They partner with over 1,000 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery, an...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K

Description

  • Lead technical strategy and architecture for AI automation across the Commercial organization.
  • Design and build production-grade AI tools that generate insights, reports, and workflow automation.
  • Architect reliable integrations across internal systems and third-party SaaS platforms using APIs, webhooks, and authentication standards.
  • Develop multi-step AI agent workflows with human-in-the-loop controls and production evaluation.
  • Establish and enforce AI safety, reliability, security, and privacy standards across automation systems.
  • Design and optimize data pipelines that support AI agents at scale.
  • Create reusable frameworks and templates for rapid prototyping and deployment of automations.
  • Build intuitive self-serve interfaces such as Slack apps and internal low-code tools to drive adoption.
  • Partner with Commercial, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Sales, and Partnerships leaders to prioritize initiatives and align roadmaps.
  • Mentor other engineers on AI/LLM best practices, prompt engineering, evaluation, and deployment patterns.
  • Champion DevOps practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, alerting, and incident response.
  • Measure and communicate business impact through metrics such as time saved, revenue enabled, and efficiency gains.

Requirements

  • 3–6 years of experience in AI, automation, data engineering, or analytics engineering.
  • Proven track record of delivering AI or automation solutions with measurable business impact.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Experience building and operating production ETL/ELT pipelines.
  • Experience designing and consuming APIs and webhooks, and building reliable services with FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js.
  • Production experience with dbt and modern cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
  • Hands-on experience using AI/LLMs in production workflows, including prompt engineering, retrieval strategies, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Strong experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and event-driven systems such as queues, pub/sub, and webhooks.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders.
  • Experience with a data visualization tool such as Tableau, Mode, Power BI, or Looker.
  • Experience with workflow automation and low-code platforms such as Zapier, n8n, Gumloop, or Superblocks.
  • Preferred: experience leading AI agent systems or automation platforms used by multiple business teams.
  • Preferred: experience with AI orchestration frameworks such as A2A, LangChain, LangGraph, or MCP.
  • Preferred: production experience with vector databases, RAG architectures, and AI evaluation tools such as Ragas, DeepEval, or LangSmith.
  • Preferred: experience building Slack apps or other lightweight internal tools.
  • Preferred: expert-level API design skills including OpenAPI, contract testing, rate limiting, and monitoring.
  • Preferred: production cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Preferred: experience integrating with business tools such as Salesforce, Slack, Google Workspace, Jira, or Linear.
  • Preferred: experience establishing technical standards and best practices for a team or organization.
  • Preferred: exposure to e-commerce, retail analytics, or ad tech.

Benefits

  • Remote work with Flex First flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location.
  • Competitive, market-based compensation.
  • Base salary range of $115,000 to $121,500 CAD for Canada-based candidates.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
  • Hiring currently available in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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