Senior ML Engineer - Real-Time Inventory Twin Platform

Jackalope Digital LLC; Canada; On-site; CAD 206,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Annual refresh grants

Remote-friendly policy

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy real-time models that understand in-store inventory and shelf dynamics at scale. You will own the ML lifecycle from framing problems to production deployment, working closely with software engineers, computer vision engineers, data scientists, and product leads to deliver measurable business impact.

The role sits on the Digital Twin Platform team, delivering startup-like speed within a larger company, shaping

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines and working with structured and unstructured data at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and ML platform tooling for model training, versioning, and serving.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, ML, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that power real-time understanding of in-store inventory levels and shelf stocking dynamics across thousands of retail locations at scale.
• Own the full ML lifecycle—from problem framing and data exploration through model training, evaluation, and production deployment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, computer vision engineers, data scientists, and product leads to bring cutting-edge technologies to the team and drive new product innovation.
• Contribute to building and evolving the core infrastructure of the Digital Twin Platform, including systems that ingest data from retail partners and actively collect novel inventory observations to feed the modeling pipeline.
• Help define the technical direction of an expanding modeling practice on a high-performance team with startup speed.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Bachelor's degree or higher

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science / ML / Statistics

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy real-time models that understand in-store inventory and shelf dynamics at scale. You will own the ML lifecycle from framing problems to production deployment, working closely with software engineers, computer vision engineers, data scientists, and product leads to deliver measurable business impact.

The role sits on the Digital Twin Platform team, delivering startup-like speed within a larger company, shaping