Senior Data Science Roles
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.

This is a general posting for multiple Senior 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.

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.

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. 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.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ: $186,000 - $207,000 USD
WA: $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