Senior Data Scientist, Instacart

• 6+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
• Have deeply engaged with AI workflows
• Expert in Python (pandas), SQL, git, and Jupyter notebooks
• Strong statistical and analytical skills
• Built a machine learning, statistical, or AI model that made its way into production even if the code you wrote was completely rewritten before being deployed

Desirable

• Instacart will increase the number of features launched by 2x by the end of 2026 by effectively using AI. A primary driver of knowing which features to launch includes analytical work traditionally performed by data scientists in collaboration with a product team. We are developing systems to accelerate analyses completed by data experts and enable anyone to self-serve most analytics questions
• You would be responsible for driving AI for Analytics data science work which includes:
• Product strategy: Using data to identify the most promising opportunity areas along with contributing data expertise to refine and develop new product ideas
• AI expertise: You will be using and deploying a variety of AI systems in production settings
• Intelligent systems: Improving a product feature by adding intelligent functionality to the product that relies on data science methods including statistical and machine learning methods
• The role requires strong XFN collaboration where an ideal candidate can:
• Drive critical efforts to completion with little oversight, while occasionally jumping into roles adjacent to data science (i.e. data engineering, machine learning engineer, etc)
• Create the product roadmap
• Ruthlessly prioritize among requests from multiple competing stakeholders
• Act as a senior cross-functional leader of the team, aligning the team on principles, processes and goals