Staff Data Science Engineer, Instacart

• 6+ years of work experience in a data science or related field
• Expert in Python, SQL, git, and Jupyter notebooks
• Deployed several machine learning models to production and had to support those models
• Know how machine learning algorithms work
• Deeply passionate about building tools to enable data scientists to maximize their impact

Desirable

• We are currently seeking a Staff Data Science Engineer to join our cutting-edge team at Instacart, where we're transforming online grocery delivery with data-driven technical solutions
• Our mission is to create impactful 0 to 1 intelligent systems that revolutionize the way we do business
• As a key player in our dynamic environment, you'll engage in strategic development, pioneering new data collection and integration methods, while building intuitive tools to empower fellow data scientists
• Collaborate cross-functionally to influence multiple facets of our product, merging data science with engineering to drive innovation
• The Data & Systems team focused on driving complex, data-driven solutions that span multiple teams, with an emphasis on online grocery delivery
• Intelligent systems strategy: Engage across the company and identify the most promising opportunity areas across the product along with contributing data expertise to refine and develop new product ideas
• Data collection and distribution: Identify and introduce new and valuable datasets to Instacart and onboard teams to use the new datasets
• Intelligent systems tooling: Build interfaces to Instacart’s infrastructure that enable data scientists to easily train and deploy new intelligent systems while automatically complying with all company policies
• Technical work with implications across multiple teams: Own building systems and performing analysis that impact multiple teams and is often deeply complex or critical to get right
• Drive critical efforts to completion with little oversight, while jumping into roles adjacent to data science (i.e. data engineering, machine learning engineer, etc)
• Bring new ideas to the team that get incorporated into the product roadmap
• Ruthlessly prioritize among requests from multiple competing stakeholders
• Act as a senior cross-functional leader, aligning the org on principles, processes, and goals