Senior Engineering Manager, Search
Core
Leading a dedicated search engineering team to own strategy and execution for Single-Retailer Search, Cross-Retailer Search, search suggestions, typeahead, and whitelabel search for Instacart's grocery delivery platform.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Search
Builds
Instacart's search and discovery infrastructure serving millions of customers and 1,800+ retail banners
Domain
Grocery technology, Applied Search, Ranking, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management, Search/recommendations/ranking systems, Neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, LLM-based query understanding, Large-scale distributed systems, Cross-functional program leadership, Product and business judgment
Preferred skills
Multi-stage rankers, Multi-task deep models, Embeddings, Real-time/session-based features, Low-latency high-throughput services, 0→1 product area leadership, LLMs in production, Experimentation/A-B testing infrastructure, Two-sided marketplaces
Technologies
LLMs, ANN, Multi-stage rankers, Multi-task deep models
Responsibilities
Own technical strategy and roadmap for search products, Drive top-line growth while maintaining quality, Champion LLM usage in search, Partner on next-generation search retrieval architecture, Double experimentation velocity via evaluation and tooling, Partner with ML/Product/Ads teams to translate ranking changes to outcomes, Hire and develop engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader
