Senior Engineering Manager, Search

📋 Description

• Own the team's strategy and roadmap for Single/Cross retailer search, queries, and ads.
• Drive top-line growth while maintaining a strict quality bar.
• Champion the use of LLMs in search.
• Partner with the platform team to design next-gen search retrieval architecture and manage latency.
• Double the team's experimentation velocity with evaluation, AI-native debugging tooling, and ML foundations.
• Hire, develop, and coach engineers, building an inclusive, high-trust culture.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management; 10+ years total engineering experience.
• Direct experience building or leading search, recommendations, ranking, or other applied ML systems, as a manager or senior IC.
• Familiarity with neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, and LLM-based query understanding or re-ranking.
• Strong depth in ML and large-scale distributed/backend systems; able to set direction and earn trust of staff-level engineers.
• Track record driving complex, cross-functional programs from strategy through launch with high quality and reliability.
• Demonstrated product and business judgment: connect modeling and ranking decisions to metrics like conversion and revenue; reason through tradeoffs.

🎁 Benefits

• Flex First remote work policy with flexible locations and in-person events.
• New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
• Taste of Instacart program and benefits offerings.
• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.