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The role
Instacart is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on its Economics team, which combines economic thinking with machine learning for marketplace problems. The role is remote under a flex-first policy, with US pay ranges listed by state.
What you will do
- Design, build and deploy machine learning solutions for economic problems in the marketplace
- Work with product managers, data scientists and engineers to understand business needs
- Refine algorithms and models to improve operational efficiency
- Share learnings, best practices and research with the Economics team
What they ask for
- Master's or PhD in Economics or a closely related field
- Economic theory, applied econometrics and business skills
- Experience applying causal inference to observational and experimental data
- Strong Python, SQL, Pandas and ML tools such as scikit-learn and XGBoost
- For the senior level: 1-3 years of industry experience, production ML and cloud ML infrastructure
- Preferred: LLM/GenAI experience, uplift modeling, contextual bandits
What they offer
- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
- Remote role under a flex-first policy
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Instacart's careers page behind the apply button.
