Senior Engineering Manager overseeing search engineering team at Instacart. Leading technical strategy and driving engagement metrics for improving shopping experience.
Responsibilities
Own the team's technical strategy, roadmap, and goals across Single and Cross retailer search
Drive top-line growth while holding a strict quality bar
Champion the use of LLMs in search
Partner with the platform team to design and ship search architecture
Double the team's experimentation velocity by investing in evaluation, AI-native debugging tooling, and ML foundations
Partner closely with ML, Product, Data Science, Ads, and whitelabel retailer teams
Requirements
4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams
Minimum 10+ years of total engineering experience
Direct experience building or leading search, recommendations, ranking, or other applied ML systems
Familiarity with modern retrieval techniques, including neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, and LLM-based query understanding or re-ranking
Strong technical depth across machine learning and large-scale distributed/backend systems
Track record of driving complex, cross-functional technical programs from strategy through launch
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