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Senior Engineering Manager, Search
Location
California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | New Jersey | New York | Washington
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$221K - $279.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager, Search
Instacart
• Own the team's technical strategy, roadmap, and goals across Single and Cross retailer search, query understanding, suggestions, Ads on Search. • Drive top-line growth while holding a strict quality bar. • Champion the use of LLMs in search. • Partner with the platform team to design and ship the next-generation search retrieval architecture, while managing the latency and reliability tradeoffs of a tier-1 surface. • Double the team's experimentation velocity by investing in evaluation, AI-native debugging tooling, and ML foundations. • Partner closely with ML, Product, Data Science, the Home and Discovery Platform teams, the Ads organization, and whitelabel retailer teams to translate ranking changes into business and retailer outcomes. • Hire, develop, and coach engineers, and build an inclusive, high-trust team culture.
Job Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams, with minimum 10+ years of total engineering experience
- Direct experience building or leading search, recommendations, ranking, or other applied ML systems, as a manager or as a senior individual contributor
- Familiarity with modern retrieval techniques, including neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, and LLM-based query understanding or re-ranking
- Strong technical depth across machine learning and large-scale distributed/backend systems; able to set direction with and earn the trust of staff-level engineers
- A track record of driving complex, cross-functional technical programs from strategy through launch while holding a high bar for quality and reliability
- Demonstrated product and business judgment: able to connect modeling and ranking decisions to metrics like conversion and revenue, and to reason through tradeoffs (e.g., relevance vs. latency, organic vs. ads)
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills; comfortable bridging technical and non-technical partners.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Professional development
- Flexible work arrangements
- Stock options
- New hire equity grant
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