Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)
Actively hiring, first seen by us 1 day ago#LI-Remote 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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
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5+ years of experience in a quantitative role at a product company or a research organization
Ability to design and run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations
Ability to write complex, efficient SQL queries and code in Python or R
Ability to turn unstructured quantitative problems into business outcomes by translating business needs into analytical frameworks
Experience with the analytical and strategic challenges of working on problems in a multi-sided marketplace
Experience building, evaluating, and improving statistical, machine learning, and optimization models
Experience working with geospatial data and methods
Experience with experimentation in a product-driven setting and in developing experimentation capabilities and tooling
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings to leadership, product, and engineering teams - MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field #LI-Remote
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- Ability to design and run rigorous experiments and come up with scientifically sound recommendations - Ability to write complex, efficient SQL queries and code in Python or R - Ability to turn unstructured quantitative problems into business outcomes by translating business needs into analytical frameworks
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New Data Scientist postings at the employers we follow are down 3% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.
Each bar is one week of new postings. The darkest bars are the last 5 weeks.
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We file this job under Data Scientist, by the work the posting describes.
Data scientists use statistics and models to answer harder questions, such as whether a change worked, what demand will look like next quarter, or which customers are likely to leave.
Postings usually ask for Python or R, SQL, statistics, experiment design and common machine learning methods.
Unlike an ML engineer, a data scientist's main output is often an analysis or a first model, not software running inside a product.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-2051.
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The Fulfillment Data Science team works on problems at the core of Instacart's marketplace: how customers choose and experience delivery and pickup, and how we balance speed, reliability, and cost to deliver it. You'll join a collaborative team that works closely with frontier machine learning models, on a rich data set with fast feedback loops from design to production. You'll be a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, and Operations, turning complex marketplace questions into clear recommendations that shape the roadmap and reach leadership.
#LI-Remote
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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
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Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)
- MS/PhD in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a similar field #LI-Remote 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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
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