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InstacartInstacartUnited States

Senior Data Scientist II - Core Delivery

As a Senior Data Scientist II on the Core Delivery team, you will identify strategic opportunities to enhance the delivery experience, design and execute rigorous experiments, and leverage geospatial data and advanced analytical techniques to optimize delivery. You will also proactively identify high-risk delivery scenarios and develop solutions.

182k – 230k/yr
Remote7+ YOEData Science

About the role

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

  • 7+ years of experience working in a data science or ML role at a product company.
  • Ability to run rigorous experiments and generate scientifically sound recommendations.
  • Strong SQL skills for data extraction and transformation from relational databases.
  • Proficiency in Python or R for data manipulation and statistical analysis, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent.
  • Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with geospatial analysis techniques.
  • MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.

Skills

SQLPythonRpandasscikit-learnGeospatial AnalysisCausal InferenceMachine LearningStatistical Modeling

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