Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry, inviting the world to share love through food. They are looking for interns to join their Economics team, focusing on the intersection of machine learning and economics, working on complex problems and developing impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- You will help design and build end-to-end machine learning solutions
- You will be working in small and cross-functional product teams, with great opportunities for growth and ownership of projects
- You will be an active member of an internal community, including economists, data scientists, operations research scientists and machine learning engineers, sharing learnings, best practices and research across many domains
- You will develop high impact solutions to support Instacart's ambitious growth plans
- You will work closely with engineers, product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to recommending a solution and testing it in controlled experiments
- You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives
Skills
- Current or recently graduated PhD student in economics or a related field with focus on data-intense problems
- A blend of economic theory, applied econometrics, and business acumen that let you jump into a fast-paced environment and contribute from day one
- Expertise in causal inference with observational and experimental data
- Expertise in Python or R and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and machine learning (scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras/Tensorflow) tools
- Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership
Benefits
- 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.
- Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
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