Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Economist

Posted 2 days ago

Apply Now

Resume Score

Check how well your resume matches this job before you apply.

Sign in to check score

About the role

  • Machine learning economist building causal systems for Instacart’s grocery delivery marketplace. Developing pricing, logistics, advertising, and incentive models.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning solutions for economic challenges in Instacart’s complex marketplace
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to understand business needs and create impactful solutions
  • Refine and advance algorithms and models to improve operational efficiency
  • Share learnings, best practices, and research across Economics team domains
  • Apply economic theory, econometrics, and machine learning to marketplace problems including incentives, pricing, product placement, matching, logistics, advertising, uplift, long-term value modeling, and causal inference

Requirements

  • Graduate Degree (Masters or PhD) in Economics or a closely related field
  • Experience applying causal inference methodologies to observational and experimental datasets
  • Understanding of machine learning algorithms and techniques
  • Strong Python programming skills
  • Fluency in SQL and Pandas for data manipulation
  • Fluency with machine learning tools such as scikit-learn and XGBoost
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Self-motivation and strong ownership
  • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I, Economist hires: 1–3 years of industry experience in a similar position
  • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I, Economist hires: experience putting machine learning models into production environments
  • For Senior Machine Learning Engineer I, Economist hires: experience with cloud computing and related ML infrastructure
  • Preferred: PhD in Economics or closely related field focused on data-intense problems
  • Preferred: intern experience in related roles
  • Preferred: experience with large language models and generative AI
  • Preferred: experience with uplift modeling, contextual bandits, and/or heterogeneous treatment effect estimation

Benefits

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$180,000 - CA$190,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Tech skills

CloudPandasPythonScikit-LearnSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

Report this job

Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.