Instacart

Instacart

Senior Data Scientist II - Core Delivery

United States - Remote · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$218k-$230kDetected 27 days ago
PythonSQLMachine Learningscikit-learnPandasData ScienceStatisticsRecruiting

About the role

  • The Core Delivery team at Instacart is dedicated to ensuring customers receive their complete orders seamlessly, spanning the full flow from capturing customer information to coordinating the shopper experience.
  • Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, behavioral decision theory, etc., to shape the future of Instacart.

Responsibilities

  • You'll also proactively identify high-risk delivery scenarios and develop solutions to the underlying systemic issues that drive them.
  • Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
  • Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products.
  • Build simulations to project the impact of various product and policy interventions.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience working in a data science or ML role at a product company.
  • Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations.
  • Proficiency in Python or R for data manipulation and statistical analysis, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent.
  • Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks.

Nice to have

  • Experience with geospatial analysis techniques.
  • MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role.
  • For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
  • All other states

Skills

  • Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap.
  • Enable objective decision-making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools.
  • Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart's leadership.

Compensation

  • Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.

This listing is sourced directly from Instacart's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.