Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Response Prediction
Instacart · Machine Learning
- Location
- Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $180K–$190K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 1 month ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless…
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through…
Overview
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Ads Response Prediction team, you will own and execute the development of ML models that power Instacart's ads ecosystem. This is a research-leaning role focused on theoretical problem formulation, training…
About the Job
Own and execute research and development of pCTR and conversion prediction models, with a focus on improving calibration, reducing training data biases (selection bias, position bias, optimizer's curse), and advancing model accuracy across Instacart's ads…
Minimum Qualifications
Master's or PhD in machine learning, statistics, computer science, information retrieval, or a closely related quantitative field; or equivalent experience. 3+ years of combined academic and industry experience (including PhD research) applying ML to ranking,…
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in ads ranking or auction-based systems (pCTR, bid optimization, ROAS feedback loops, marketplace dynamics). Hands-on experience with autoregressive sequence models for user behavior prediction, generative retrieval, or transformer-based ranking…
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