Senior Software Engineer, AI Labs & Foundations - Remote

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire equity grant

Job summary

Instacart is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for AI Labs & Foundations to design, build, and run high-scale production AI systems that power Cart Assistant and voice AI experiences for millions of shoppers. You will lead end-to-end delivery, collaborate across product, data science, and infrastructure, and raise the bar for AI/ML production engineering.

Join a fast-moving team that values experimentation, rapid prototyping, and rigorous reliability, latency, and cost efficiency in a

Qualifications

• Proven senior software engineer who has built, shipped, and operated production systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AI or ML in production.
• Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and on-call participation.
• Strong communicator who partners well across disciplines - you want to get to the right answer, not just defend the first one.
• Golang, Python, or Typescript language experience
• Excitement and ability to leverage cutting-edge development tools, including AI assistance to maximize velocity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production AI-powered systems and agentic experiences that directly impact how millions of customers shop.
• Build foundational systems for cutting-edge AI experiences, ranging from embedding infrastructure and voice AI pipelines, to client facing components and integrations, by prototyping bold ideas and productizing what works.
• Integrate foundation models via APIs and open-source frameworks; apply techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and vector search where appropriate.
• Own projects end-to-end: requirements, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and iterative improvement focused on reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, design, data science, and infrastructure to ship AI features end-to-end.
• Drive engineering excellence, including thoughtful system design, rigorous code review, and technical leadership that includes defining and promoting best practices for AI/ML production engineering across the team.

Skills

Golang

Python

TypeScript

AI/ML in production

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Vector search

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Vector databases (Pinecone/Weaviate/FAISS/Elasticsearch)

Job description

Instacart is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for AI Labs & Foundations to design, build, and run high-scale production AI systems that power Cart Assistant and voice AI experiences for millions of shoppers. You will lead end-to-end delivery, collaborate across product, data science, and infrastructure, and raise the bar for AI/ML production engineering.

Join a fast-moving team that values experimentation, rapid prototyping, and rigorous reliability, latency, and cost efficiency in a