Director, Enterprise AI – Machine Learning Engineering

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About the role

  • Director leading agentic AI and machine learning products for Instacart’s grocery technology platform. Building retailer solutions and guiding teams from strategy through production deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering and machine learning strategy for agentic AI solutions for Instacart’s retail partners
  • Build, mentor, and inspire high-performing engineering and science teams
  • Partner with retailers and internal stakeholders to translate complex business problems into AI products
  • Guide development of reliable, scalable, usable systems combining machine learning, data, software engineering, and agentic capabilities
  • Establish direction in a zero-to-one product space while balancing technical strategy with rapid execution
  • Represent Enterprise AI across the organization and communicate tradeoffs, progress, risks, and opportunities to senior stakeholders
  • Lead products through the full lifecycle from identifying customer needs and exploring technologies to deploying and scaling production-ready AI systems

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying agentic AI, generative AI, or machine learning products in production environments
  • Experience leading engineering, machine learning, data science, or applied science teams through product development and delivery
  • Experience partnering with product, business, customer-facing, and technical stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions to complex problems
  • Strong understanding of machine learning development practices, software engineering principles, data systems, and operational considerations required to scale AI applications
  • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, prioritize work, manage ambiguity, and deliver results in a fast-changing environment
  • Preferred: Deep technical expertise in agentic systems, large language models, machine learning platforms, or related applied artificial intelligence
  • Preferred: Experience delivering applied machine learning products at significant scale
  • Preferred: Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across engineering, machine learning, data science, product, consulting, and customer-facing teams
  • Preferred: Experience working directly with retailers, commerce platforms, or other enterprise customers
  • Preferred: Track record creating clarity and momentum in zero-to-one product environments

Benefits

  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Flexible choice of work location (home, office, or coffee shop)
  • Regular in-person events
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$313,000 - CA$330,500 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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