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. [https://www.instacart.careers/flex-first]
Overview
This is a general posting for multiple Senior Data Science roles open across our
4-sided marketplace. Roles are open at both the L5 (Senior Data Scientist I) and
L6 (Senior Data Scientist II) levels. You’ll get the chance to learn about the
different problems the Data Science team solves as you go through the process.
Towards the end of your process, we’ll do a team-matching exercise to determine
which of the open roles/teams you’ll join. At the bottom of this posting, you’ll
find a breakdown of the currently open roles.
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
* 5+ years of experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or
a research organization.
* Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound
recommendations.
* Ability to write complex, efficient, and eloquent SQL queries to extract
data.
* Ability to write efficient and eloquent code in Python or R.
* A desire to build and improve consumer software products.
* Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks.
* Eagerness to learn, flexibility to pivot when needed, savviness to navigate a
dynamic environment, and a growth mindset to build a successful team and
company.
Preferred Qualifications
* Awareness of business trade-offs when working on a multi-sided marketplace.
* Confidence in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional
stakeholders (e.g., Product, Engineering) at a senior level.
* MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
Currently Opened Roles
Order Experiences (Search) | Sr. Data Scientist I (L5/6)
The Order Experiences (Search) team is focused on making it fast and effortless
for customers to find the right items and complete their order with confidence.
As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll own the analytics and experimentation
strategy that powers how we interpret customer intent and surface the most
relevant results—driving search conversion, order rate, and GTV. You’ll partner
closely with Product, Engineering, and ML to shape the roadmap for search
relevance and ranking quality, running experiments across retrieval, ranking,
and search UX while connecting offline model evaluation to real-world business
outcomes.
Delivery | Sr. Data Scientist II (L6)
The Delivery team 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 logistics. You’ll
also proactively identify high-risk delivery scenarios and develop solutions to
the underlying systemic issues that drive them.
Marketing | Sr. Data Scientist I (L5)
The Marketing Data Science team is responsible for measurement and optimization
across Instacart’s paid digital channels, including search, shopping, display,
social, and video. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll build and maintain
sophisticated attribution models—including multi-touch and incrementality-based
approaches—and develop scalable data pipelines to turn raw marketing data into
clean, analysis-ready datasets. You’ll apply causal inference methods such as
geo holdouts and difference-in-differences to evaluate campaign effectiveness,
partnering closely with marketing, data engineering, and business teams to
define measurement frameworks and drive data-informed decisions. You'll also
model user lifetime value (LTV) across acquisition cohorts, quantifying how
marketing spend and channel mix influence long-term retention and monetization
to inform budget allocation and growth strategy
#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
[https://instacart.careers/flex-first/].
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 [https://instacart.careers/taste-of-instacart/].
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are
listed below.
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$194,000—$230,000 USD
WA
$185,000—$220,500 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$177,000—$211,000 USD
All other states
$161,000—$192,000 USD
