Senior Software Engineer I — Agentic Analytics
Core
Design and build LLM-powered systems that transform how data practitioners interact with data at Instacart, including natural-language data access, AI-assisted SQL, and automated metadata generation.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (applied AI/LLM systems)
Builds
Production-grade LLM-powered systems, agentic workflows, retrieval/grounding systems, and product surfaces for internal data users
Domain
Grocery delivery / Data Infrastructure / Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python backend engineering, applied LLM systems (RAG, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, evals), SQL, data infrastructure technologies (Airflow, Snowflake, dbt), large codebase navigation
Preferred skills
retrieval systems, vector stores, grounding LLMs over enterprise data, eval frameworks for LLM products, building internal developer tools
Technologies
Python, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, LLMs, vector stores
Responsibilities
Build LLM-powered systems end-to-end; design retrieval/grounding over internal metadata and code; develop agentic workflows and quality systems; collaborate with Data Science and ML teams to identify high-leverage AI applications; contribute to engineering culture around applied AI rigor
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
