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

_About the Role

_This is a general posting for multiple Sr. Data Science roles open across our 4-sided marketplace. 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. You can find a blurb on each team at the bottom of this page.

About The Team

You will be joining a growing data science team and will tackle some of the most challenging and impactful problems that are transforming how people buy groceries every day. You will be embedded within our data-driven product team as a trusted partner in uncovering barriers in the product’s usability and utilize these insights to inform product improvements that drive angle-changing growth. We’re looking for a self-driven, strategic thinker who can hit the ground running to ultimately influence decision-making across the entire organization.

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 product
Build simulations to project 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 experience working in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
Ability to run rigorous experiments and come up with 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 and thrive in a dynamic environment, and a growth mindset needed 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 (i.e. Product, Engineering), at a senior level
MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field

Open Roles

Platform Data Science Team:

Join Instacart’s Fraud & Identity team, where you’ll play a critical role in safeguarding the platform and optimizing its performance. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams as a trusted partner, delivering strategic insights and data-driven recommendations.Design and execute metrics, frameworks, and predictive models to tackle fraud prevention and identity challenges, driving measurable business impact. Communicate findings and actionable insights clearly to stakeholders and senior leaders, shaping strategy and influencing decision-making to protect users and the platform.

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.

CA, NY, CT, NJ

$186,000—$207,000 USD

$179,000—$199,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI

$171,000—$190,000 USD

All other states

$155,000—$172,000 USD