Sobre este puesto de Senior Data Scientist II - Core Delivery en Instacart
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
The Core Delivery team at Instacart is dedicated to ensuring customers receive their complete orders seamlessly, spanning the full flow from capturing customer information to coordinating the shopper experience. As a Senior Data Scientist II, you’ll identify strategic opportunities to enhance the delivery experience, design and execute rigorous experiments to evaluate new product features, and leverage geospatial data and advanced analytical techniques to optimize delivery experience. You’ll also proactively identify high-risk delivery scenarios and develop solutions to the underlying systemic issues that drive them.
About the Job
- Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap.
- Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
- Develop statistical models to extract trends, measure results, and predict future performance of our products.
- Build simulations to project the impact of various product and policy interventions.
- Enable objective decision-making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools.
- Use expertise in causal inference, machine learning, complex systems modeling, behavioral decision theory, etc., to shape the future of Instacart.
- Present findings in a compelling way to influence Instacart’s leadership.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience working in a data science or ML role at a product company.
- Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations.
- Strong SQL skills for data extraction and transformation from relational databases.
- Proficiency in Python or R for data manipulation and statistical analysis, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent.
- Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with geospatial analysis techniques.
- MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
#LI-remote
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
