Coupang

Staff, Machine Learning Engineer - Coupang Play

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1 day ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate an end-to-end ML platform covering data processing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and experimentation.
  • Design and develop high-throughput, low-latency real-time inference systems and ML APIs.
  • Ensure the stability, availability, observability, and operational efficiency of ML systems in large-scale production environments.
  • Collaborate with ML scientists, data engineers, backend engineers, product managers, and content-domain experts to translate business requirements into scalable ML solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership in ML platform architecture, production ML operations, multimodal model usage, and engineering strategy.
  • Improve recommendation quality and personalization to increase user engagement, including viewing time and click-through rate.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or a related field.
  • At least 7 years of experience developing and operating ML products, including at least 2 years with recommendation, personalization, or large-scale user-facing ML systems.
  • Experience building real-time inference systems, ML APIs, and model-serving infrastructure for large-scale traffic.
  • Experience using Python, PyTorch, Spark, Airflow, and current ML frameworks and platform tools.
  • Understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, microservices, containers, orchestration, and CI/CD.
  • Experience operating production ML systems, including monitoring, observability, alerting, model performance management, data quality validation, incident response, and reliability improvement.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience with recommendation systems and ranking models, multimodal or video understanding models, or LLM-based model development and operations.
  • Preferred experience with model architecture, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, production deployment, large-scale distributed ML systems, or GPU-based training.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment with a 12-week probationary period, which may be waived, shortened, or extended when business needs require.
  • All interviews are conducted remotely.
  • The hiring process includes document screening, first interview, technical interview, leadership interview, and final selection.

Tech Stack

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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