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Instacart

Forward Deployed Engineer

Instacart
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about 3 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$169k - $214k/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, participating in product reviews and proposing platform improvements.
  • Collaborate with the AI Solutions Architect to translate requirements into working software.
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for customers during implementation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with a proven ability to write 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 and legacy systems.
  • Experience working with external enterprise customers in a consulting capacity.
  • Strong knowledge of retail and e-commerce system fundamentals.
  • Excellent communication skills to translate technical findings for R&D and product teams.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements allowing employees to choose their work environment.
  • Eligibility for new hire equity grants and annual refresh grants.
  • Highly competitive compensation and benefits.

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