Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Quality

Instacart

Posted 3mo ago

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Develop & design innovative AI-powered systems addressing Ads Quality challenges
Optimize ads pacing/bidding, retrieval and auction processes
Balance user, advertiser, and retailer needs
Identify and build gen AI solutions to revolutionize the quality stack
Build advanced generative AI and recommendation frameworks
Construct systems and frameworks for intelligent recommendations to advertisers
Collaborate with Data Scientists to establish metrics and methodologies
Define & own the Ads Quality technical strategy and roadmap
Architect and design complex AI / quality components
Serve as a technical leader and mentor
Guide and empower junior ML and software engineers
Improve key engineering processes
Foster a thriving engineering culture
Build and maintain synergies with other ML engineering teams
Act as a bridge representing Ads in company-wide technical forums
Contribute to company-level technical initiatives as a thought leader

PhD in AI / ML or related field, or equivalent academic and research experience
10+ years of experience as a software and / or ML engineer
Proven track record of architecting & building production-grade ML systems, AI and quantitative optimization technologies at a global scale
Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions and collaborate effectively at senior to executive levels
Experience mentoring and developing engineering culture and talent

Hands-on expertise in building large-scale AI/ML systems bridging generative AI, predictive modeling, and recommendation engines
Deep understanding of Ads Quality systems, including pacing/bidding, yield optimization, retrieval processes, and auction dynamics
Familiar with AWS, Golang, Spark, Clickhouse, Snowflake, TensorFlow

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