# Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations at Instacart

- Company: Instacart
- What the company does: Order same-day delivery or pickup from more than 300 retailers and grocers. Download the Instacart app or start shopping online now with Instacart to get groceries, alcohol, home essentials, and more delivered to you in as fast as 1 hour or select curbside... Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://www.instacart.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://instacart.careers/job/?gh_jid=8053797
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instacart-senior-software-engineer-ii-ai-labs-and-foundations/

## About the role

Join Instacart's mission to transform grocery shopping through frontier AI. As a Senior Software Engineer on AI Labs & Foundations, you will design, build, and operate the high-scale production systems that power our most ambitious AI experiences—from Cart Assistant, our conversational shopping agent, to voice AI interactions and beyond.

## What they're looking for

- Proven senior software engineer who has built, shipped, and operated production systems at scale. You make architectural calls, own what you build, and deliver through ambiguity
- Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and on-call participation
- Strong communicator who partners well across disciplines - you want to get to the right answer, not just defend the first one
- Golang, Python, or Typescript language experience
- Excitement and ability to leverage cutting-edge development tools, including AI assistance (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude), to maximize velocity

Tags: Infrastructure