Senior AI Infra Engineer, Caper

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 opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

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 regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated AI Infra Engineer to design, develop, and maintain our data platform specifically tailored for deep learning and computer vision applications. You will be responsible for building and optimizing our data infrastructure to support large-scale data collection, labeling, management, model training, evaluation, and continuous deployment. Your work will be critical in enabling our AI and computer vision teams to build and deploy state-of-the-art models efficiently and reliably.

About the Team

The AI and CV team at Caper (Instacart) innovates at the industry frontier across cloud and edge computing. The systems and algorithms built enable a magical shopping and checkout process in grocery stores. Our enthusiastic researchers and engineers are spread across different time zones but collaborate effectively on multiple exciting projects.

About the Job

Your responsibilities will include one or more of the following:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines for collecting, processing, and storing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, specifically image and video streams and relevant metadata.
• Develop and integrate tools for data labeling and annotation, ensuring high-quality training datasets for deep learning and computer vision models.
• Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers to build and optimize the infrastructure required for training and evaluating deep learning models at scale.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to seamlessly deploy machine learning models into production environments.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, full-stack and/or infrastructure development.
• Proven experience with building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines (batching or streaming) for computer vision and/or machine learning applications.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog) and best practices.
• Familiarity with frameworks for large-scale data processing (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Ray), storage (e.g., S3, Delta Lake), indexing and search (e.g. Elasticsearch).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong problem-solving skills to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and/or integrating computer vision data collection, labeling and management systems.
• Experience in edge inference and optimization on Nvidia chipsets.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and model management platforms (e.g., Kubeflow, MLflow, TensorBoard).
• Knowledge of computer vision and machine learning algorithms and models.
• Experience with frameworks and best practices for data security or compliance.

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ$198,000—$220,000 USDWA$190,000—$211,000 USDOR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$182,000—$202,000 USDAll other states$165,000—$183,000 USD