Engineering Manager, Machine Learning (caper)

Instacart

Canada
Base: $201,000 - $253,000 usd; bonus/equity: new h...
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Machine learning infrastructure
Computer vision
Edge inference optimization
** Instacart is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Machine Learning team to lead the development of AI-powered Caper Carts. The role involves overseeing a team of ML engineers to enhance item recognition, checkout speed, and system reliability, all within a flexible remote work environment. **

Job Summary

  • Lead a team of ML and AI infrastructure engineers building the perception and reasoning systems for Instacart's Caper Carts.
  • Define the technical vision and roadmap for cart perception and multimodal understanding, prioritizing work that drives measurable gains in item recognition accuracy and checkout speed.
  • Architect scalable training, data, and inference platforms on GCP using modern MLOps practices to enable rapid experimentation and safe, repeatable deployments.

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** Instacart is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Machine Learning team to lead the development of AI-powered Caper Carts. The role involves overseeing a team of ML engineers to enhance item recognition, checkout speed, and system reliability, all within a flexible remote work environment. **

Salary

Base: $201,000 - $253,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Machine Learning infrastructure
  • Computer Vision
  • Edge inference optimization
  • GCP ML platforms
  • Scalable MLOps practices

Nice-to-have

  • Multimodal vision-language models
  • Android ML integration
  • Hardware sensor integration

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years ML systems deployment
  • 2+ years managing ML engineers
  • Deep learning expertise
  • GCP and Kubernetes experience
  • Real-time edge inference experience
  • Python and SQL proficiency
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

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Not specified

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