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Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations

2 hours, 7 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
AI Engineer
Software Development
AWS CI/CD Docker Elasticsearch GCP Kafka Kubernetes LLM Machine Learning System Design
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instacart.careers

instacart.careers

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...

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Description

  • Design, build, and operate production AI-powered systems and agentic experiences used by millions of customers.
  • Build foundational systems for AI experiences, including embedding infrastructure, voice AI pipelines, client-facing components, and integrations.
  • Integrate foundation models through APIs and open-source frameworks, including retrieval-augmented generation and vector search where appropriate.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and iterative improvement.
  • Optimize systems for reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with product, design, data science, and infrastructure partners to ship AI features end-to-end.
  • Drive engineering excellence through thoughtful system design, rigorous code review, and AI/ML production best practices.
  • Participate in the design and delivery of production AI systems and identify high-leverage technical opportunities.
  • Contribute hands-on to AI-native products across Instacart's platform.
  • Prototype bold ideas quickly, test rigorously, and turn concepts into scalable products.

Requirements

  • Proven senior software engineer experience building, shipping, and operating production systems at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with AI or ML in production, including shipped LLM-powered features or foundation model API integrations.
  • Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and on-call participation.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to partner effectively across disciplines.
  • Willingness and ability to use AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude.
  • 5 to 8+ years of industry experience (preferred).
  • Experience building conversational agents, multi-turn dialogue systems, or agentic LLM applications (preferred).
  • Experience with STT/TTS or natural language interfaces, LLM fine tuning, ML transfer learning, model training, and model performance measurement (preferred).
  • Experience with embedding systems, vector search, or RAG using vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, or Elasticsearch (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, containers such as Docker, orchestration such as Kubernetes, and event-driven or distributed systems such as Kafka (preferred).
  • Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership in cross-functional teams (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote Flex First work environment with flexibility to work from home, an office, or a coffee shop.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Base salary ranges from $192,000 to $242,000 USD depending on permanent work location.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
  • Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
  • Benefits offerings available through Instacart's benefits program.

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