AI Automation Lead II
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AI Automation Lead II at Instacart designing automation solutions to transform commercial operations. Leading technical strategy for AI-driven workflows and enabling data-driven decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical strategy and architecture for AI automation across the Commercial organization, identifying high-ROI opportunities and translating business requirements into scalable solutions.
- Design and build production-grade AI tools that understand natural language, provide actionable insights, generate reports, and automate complex workflows such as campaign planning, ticket management, and sales enablement.
- Architect reliable, scalable integrations across internal systems and third-party SaaS (REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, OAuth, JWT), establishing best practices for rate limiting, retries, idempotency, and error handling.
- Lead development of multi-step AI agent architectures using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or MCP, with appropriate human-in-the-loop controls and production-ready evaluation.
- Establish and enforce AI safety and reliability standards including guardrails, evaluation frameworks, fallback logic, RBAC, audit trails, and PII protections across all AI systems.
- Design and optimize data pipelines (SQL, Python, dbt) that power AI agents at scale, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance.
- Create frameworks and templates for rapid prototyping and deployment of new automations, enabling faster time-to-value for future projects.
- Drive adoption by building intuitive UIs and self-serve experiences (e.g., Slack apps, low-code internal tools) and creating documentation that makes AI tools accessible to non-technical users.
- Partner with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, and Data Science leadership to prioritize initiatives, align on roadmaps, and ensure solutions drive measurable business outcomes.
- Mentor and guide other engineers on AI/LLM best practices, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and production deployment patterns.
- Champion DevOps excellence including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, alerting, and incident response.
- Enforce security and compliance best practices across all automations and data workflows.
- Measure and communicate impact through clear metrics tied to business outcomes (time saved, revenue enabled, efficiency gains).
Requirements:
- 5–8 years experience in AI, automation, data engineering, or analytics engineering.
- Proven track record of designing and deploying AI/automation solutions that drove measurable business impact.
- Deep proficiency in SQL and Python; extensive experience building and operating production ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Strong experience designing and consuming APIs/webhooks and building reliable services (FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js) at scale.
- Production experience with dbt and modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
- Hands-on experience incorporating AI/LLMs into production workflows, including prompt engineering, retrieval strategies, evaluation, and deployment.
- Expert knowledge of Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and event-driven systems (queues, pub/sub, webhooks).
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
- Excellent communication skills: able to translate complex technical concepts for business stakeholders and influence cross-functional teams.
- Experience with at least one data visualization tool (Tableau, Mode, Power BI, Looker, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with workflow automation and low-code development platforms (Zapier, n8n, Gumloop, Superblocks).
Benefits:
- Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
- New hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants
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