Coupang

Senior Staff ll, AI Engineer (L7-2)

Coupang
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Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$171k - $351k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, architect, and own the full lifecycle of generative AI and LLM-centered applications for e-commerce.
  • Develop production AI infrastructure including vector databases, high-throughput inference, and real-time data pipelines for context enrichment and low-latency serving.
  • Build and maintain RAG frameworks grounded in product catalogs, user history, and operational knowledge bases.
  • Implement prompt engineering, agentic designs, and complex LLM chains for stable intelligent software services.
  • Establish AI reliability, monitoring, and safety practices to reduce hallucinations and improve cost efficiency at scale.
  • Rapidly prototype and productionize new AI capabilities.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience with strong coding and code review skills.
  • Deep specialization in LLMs, generative AI systems, and AI productivity tools.
  • Experience owning end-to-end AI applications including generative AI agents, conversational interfaces, RAG pipelines, LLM fine-tuning and optimization, and AI-powered automation systems.
  • A proven track record of taking AI-first products from concept to production with measurable user, operational, or performance improvements.
  • Strong understanding of prompt engineering, LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, vector databases, semantic search architectures, and scalable MLOps.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with high-traffic consumer AI, cross-functional AI research and product engineering teams, 0-to-1 generative AI products, large-scale non-deterministic systems, rapid experimentation, and e-commerce search.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, employee assistance, FSA, and HSA benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 public holidays.
  • Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Free electric vehicle charging station.

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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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