Senior Software Engineer, AI Productivity
Instacart · Software Engineering
- Location
- Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $168K–$178K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 5 months 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
Instacart’s AI Productivity team builds AI-powered platforms and tools that help our engineers and operators move faster, reduce toil, and deliver higher-quality experiences for customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners. As a Senior Software Engineer…
About the Job
Design, build, and operate AI-powered services and internal applications—such as code and test assistants, knowledge search, and intelligent chat workflows—that improve developer and operator productivity at scale. Implement robust back-end services in…
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services. 3+ years of hands-on experience in at least one of: Python, Go, or Java. 2+ years of experience integrating ML or LLM capabilities into applications (e.g.,…
Preferred Qualifications
Experience adapting or fine-tuning foundation models and implementing retrieval-augmented generation with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, or Elasticsearch with vector search). Track record of building internal developer tools or platforms…
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