About the company
We're transforming the grocery industry. At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve our native iOS SDK (Swift) for AR-based shelf scanning.
- Work on the core product recognition engine that powers real-time retail analytics - from ARKit scene understanding to CoreML inference to App Store distribution.
- Build and optimize computer vision pipelines using Vision framework and CoreML.
- Implement AR experiences with ARKit for real-time shelf scanning.
- Package and distribute the SDK as XCFramework with proper signing and versioning.
- Manage the full App Store submission and TestFlight distribution process.
- Design clean, well-documented public APIs for SDK consumers.
- Profile and optimize performance for real-time inference on device.
- Deliver features end to end: technical design and clean architecture, implementation, phased rollout, observability to confirm impact, and on-call/incident response when needed.
Requirements
- 3+ years of native iOS development in Swift.
- Experience building and distributing iOS SDKs (XCFramework packaging, API design, documentation).
- Hands-on experience with App Store Connect, TestFlight, and the full submission process.
- Understanding of ARKit and building AR experiences.
- Experience with on-device ML using CoreML or similar frameworks.
- Familiarity with Vision framework for image analysis.
- Solid debugging and performance profiling skills (Instruments, Metal debugger).
Conditions
- Hybrid (3 days/week in office required).