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Instacart

Forward Deployed Engineer

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about 2 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$169k - $179k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise retail customers to understand their technical environments and business workflows.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI solutions tailored to customer needs across Instacart's platform.
  • Integrate Instacart's AI capabilities into customer ecosystems, even with undocumented systems.
  • Maintain a close relationship with R&D to flag platform gaps and propose improvements.
  • Collaborate with the AI Solutions Architect to translate requirements into working software.
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for customers during implementation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with production-quality code.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, function calling, and agent frameworks.
  • Proficiency in Python or another backend language used in data-intensive environments.
  • Ability to integrate with complex enterprise data environments.
  • Experience with external enterprise customers in a consulting capacity.
  • Strong knowledge of retail and e-commerce system fundamentals.
  • Excellent communication skills for translating technical findings.

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