About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding AI solutions inside enterprise retail environments. Collaborating with partners to design, build, and deliver agentic AI solutions that fit their ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Embed with enterprise retail customers and partners to understand their technical environments.
Design, build, and deploy AI and agentic solutions tailored to each customer's specific infrastructure.
Extend, adapt, and integrate Instacart's core AI capabilities.
Maintain a close working relationship with R&D.
Collaborate closely with the AI Solutions Architect to translate domain requirements into working software.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers.

5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to write and ship production-quality code.
Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs, function calling, tool use, agent frameworks, or RAG pipelines.
Proficiency in Python or another scripting/backend language.
Proven ability to integrate with messy, heterogeneous enterprise data environments.
Direct experience with external enterprise customers or technical stakeholders.
Strong working knowledge of retail and e-commerce system fundamentals.
Strong communication skills.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
Review our Flex First remote work policy.
Benefits offerings.