Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations

Instacart

Posted 3mo ago

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Proven senior software engineer who has built, shipped, and operated production systems at scale
Hands-on experience with AI or ML in production
Shipped LLM-powered features or integrated foundation model APIs into a live product
Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and on-call participation
Strong communicator who partners well across disciplines

5 to 8+ years of industry experience
A track record of 0-to-1 work taking unconventional ideas from prototype through rapid iteration to production
Experience building conversational agents, multi-turn dialogue systems, or agentic LLM applications
Experience with STT/TTS or natural language interfaces, LLM fine tuning, ML transfer learning, model training and the vocabulary of measurement of model performance
Experience with embedding systems, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with vector databases
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Experience with event-driven or distributed systems (e.g., Kafka)
Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership within cross-functional teams

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