Coupang

Staff, Machine Learning Engineer (Search & Discovery)

Coupang
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1 day ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own Coupang’s critical recommendation service and help continuously improve the customer discovery experience.
  • Collaborate with global teams to build and scale recommendation systems.
  • Analyze large-scale customer behavior data to derive actionable insights.
  • Develop machine learning models, features, ranking algorithms, and recommendation improvements.
  • Create data jobs, train and evaluate models, run experiments, and launch new algorithms.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers across teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a closely related field.
  • At least 5 years of professional applied AI/ML experience working with large-scale, complex datasets.
  • Proven ability to derive insights from complex datasets and solve business-critical problems with advanced AI/ML technologies.
  • Experience serving as a domain technical leader and driving cross-team delivery of large-scale, high-impact solutions.
  • Track record of launching successful algorithms with measurable business impact.
  • Professional industry experience with Python and/or Java.
  • Professional proficiency in English and strong communication skills.
  • Preferred: Ph.D. or master’s degree in a relevant technical or scientific field.
  • Preferred: experience with recommendation or search systems, LLMs, PLMs, embedding models, cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, Vertex AI, and large-scale online serving systems.
Coupang

About Coupang

5,001-10,000 employees

Coupang builds and operates a South Korea–focused e-commerce marketplace with an end-to-end logistics network (Rocket Delivery), plus food delivery, video streaming, and fintech under brands such as Coupang, Eats, and Play. Revenue comes from first-party retail, third-party marketplace services, advertising, and memberships (Rocket WOW). Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Seattle and is publicly listed on the NYSE (CPNG).

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