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

Instacart; United States; Remote; CAD 206,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Remote, Canada). You will design, train, and deploy models to understand in-store inventory and stocking dynamics in real time, collaborating with software, CV, and data science teams to ship high-impact solutions at scale.

You will own problem framing, data exploration, model training, evaluation, and production deployment, with a focus on reliability, performance, and business impact.

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 ML models for real-time understanding of in-store inventory levels across thousands of locations.
• Own the full ML lifecycle from problem framing to production deployment with a focus on quality and impact.
• Collaborate with software, computer vision, data science, and product teams to bring cutting-edge technologies to the platform.
• Contribute to building and evolving the core infrastructure of the Digital Twin Platform, ingesting data and collecting observations.
• Help define technical direction of the modeling practice on a fast-moving team with startup speed.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks: TensorFlow/PyTorch/scik

Large-scale data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Bachelor's degree in CS/ML/Statistics

Education

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

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Remote, Canada). You will design, train, and deploy models to understand in-store inventory and stocking dynamics in real time, collaborating with software, CV, and data science teams to ship high-impact solutions at scale.

You will own problem framing, data exploration, model training, evaluation, and production deployment, with a focus on reliability, performance, and business impact.