Coupang

Senior Staff/Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Coupang
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7 hours ago
Beijing, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose bottlenecks and quantify defects across query rewriting, retrieval, ranking, and the broader search funnel.
  • Architect and implement advanced machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and LLM solutions for search and discovery.
  • Build query understanding services for intent detection, query rewriting, semantic expansion, and entity extraction using fine-tuned LLMs.
  • Design and scale semantic and dense retrieval systems using vector search and generative retrieval techniques.
  • Develop and optimize listwise and pairwise LLM reranking models for real-time serving.
  • Optimize offline and online inference performance using model distillation, quantization, vLLM, and TensorRT.
  • Conduct rigorous evaluations and A/B tests for production search and recommendation solutions.
  • Mentor senior engineers and drive consensus across Infrastructure, Platform, and Product organizations.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of professional experience in Search, Information Retrieval, recommendation systems, machine learning, deep learning, or natural language processing.
  • Proficient software engineering and coding skills in Python, C++, or Java.
  • Proven experience handling large data volumes, training large-scale models, and serving high-QPS pipelines in distributed environments such as Spark, Ray, or Kubernetes.
  • Ability to formulate ambiguous business problems mathematically and deliver production-grade machine learning solutions.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related engineering field.
  • Preferred experience fine-tuning, aligning, or distilling LLMs for search, recommendation, or NLP tasks, including SFT, LoRA, RLHF, or DPO.
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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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