Senior Engineering Manager, Search

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About the role

  • 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
  • Demonstrated product and business judgment

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Flex First remote work policy

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$229,000 - $241,500 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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