Senior ML Engineer — Real-Time Inventory Platform (Remote)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 201,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Digital Twin Platform to build and deploy models predicting in-store inventory levels and stocking dynamics in real time. You will collaborate with software, computer vision, data science, and product teams to deliver scalable ML solutions across thousands of retail locations.

We value strong Python expertise, experience with TensorFlow/PyTorch, and building large-scale data pipelines in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale data pipelines and working with structured and unstructured data at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML platform tooling for model training, versioning, and serving.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related technical 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 — with a focus on quality, reliability, and measurable business impact.
• 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 that operates with startup speed — expect ambiguity, changing priorities, and the opportunity to make a significant mark on a problem space that is core to Instacart's business.

Skills

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Data pipelines

AWS

GCP

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field

Job description

Instacart is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Digital Twin Platform to build and deploy models predicting in-store inventory levels and stocking dynamics in real time. You will collaborate with software, computer vision, data science, and product teams to deliver scalable ML solutions across thousands of retail locations.

We value strong Python expertise, experience with TensorFlow/PyTorch, and building large-scale data pipelines in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).