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Senior Data Scientist
@ Instacart
Ontario
Overview
Instacart is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for its Fulfillment Data Science team, a fully remote role open to candidates in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. The work covers how customers choose and experience delivery and pickup, owning the experimentation framework for speed and service tests, and turning marketplace tradeoffs into recommendations. Base pay is $161,000 to $170,000 CAD, plus equity grants.
Responsibilities:
- Design and analyze experiments in a two-sided marketplace
- Own the experimentation framework for speed and service option tests
- Measure tradeoffs between speed, reliability, cost and customer experience
- Connect operational changes to growth, retention and efficiency
- Build automation tools, metrics and frameworks
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years in a quantitative role at a product company or research organization
- Track record of owning ambiguous cross-functional problems
- Ability to design and run rigorous experiments
- Complex SQL and Python or R
- MS/PhD in a quantitative field preferred
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-05
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-05
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Data & analytics |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Travel | ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Master’s degree (preferred), Doctorate (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics |
| Perks mentioned | Stock or equity |
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Full company description
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.
- LinkedIn followers
- 287,230
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 24,458
- Reported office locations
- Blue Shield of California Building, 50 Beale St #600, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
- 190 Liberty St, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3L5, CA
- Business categories
- Consumer
- E-Commerce
- Grocery
- Shopping
- Delivery Service
- Other recorded names
- Instacart
- Specialties
- Grocery Delivery and online grocery
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 2,919,023,124
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | Grocery Delivery and online grocery |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 33 |
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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.
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
The Fulfillment Data Science team works on problems at the core of Instacart's marketplace: how customers choose and experience delivery and pickup, and how we balance speed, reliability, and cost to deliver it. You'll join a collaborative team that works closely with frontier machine learning models, on a rich data set with fast feedback loops from design to production. You'll be a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, and Operations, turning complex marketplace questions into clear recommendations that shape the roadmap and reach leadership.
About the Job
- Use data science to shape how customers choose and experience delivery and pickup, from browsing through checkout and fulfillment
- Own the experimentation framework for all speed and service option tests, across both marketplace and enterprise
- Design and analyze experiments in a two-sided marketplace, adapting methods to fit the problem
- Measure tradeoffs between speed, reliability, cost, and customer experience, and turn them into product and strategy recommendations
- Connect operational changes to business outcomes such as growth, retention, and efficiency
- Work with Product, Engineering, and Operations to understand complicated systems and find the questions that matter most
- Build automation tools, metrics, and frameworks that help the broader team move faster
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
- Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-functional problems end to end and influencing roadmap or leadership decisions
- Ability to design and run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations
- Ability to write complex, efficient SQL queries and code in Python or R
- Ability to turn unstructured quantitative problems into business outcomes by translating business needs into analytical frameworks
- Eagerness to learn, flexibility to pivot when needed, and a growth mindset in a dynamic environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with the analytical and strategic challenges of working on problems in a multi-sided marketplace
- Experience building, evaluating, and improving statistical, machine learning, and optimization models
- Experience working with geospatial data and methods
- Experience with experimentation in a product-driven setting and in developing experimentation capabilities and tooling
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings to leadership, product, and engineering teams
- MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field
#LI-Remote
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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$161,000—$170,000 CAD
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