Coupang

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Discovery

Coupang
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1 day ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$152k - $277k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design features and build large-scale machine learning models and systems for relevance, ranking, personalization, and engagement.
  • Implement ML systems for search ranking, semantic retrieval, query understanding, and personalized product discovery.
  • Use LLMs, embedding-based retrieval, vector search, transformer-based models, contrastive learning, and multimodal learning to improve search relevance and user intent modeling.
  • Build and optimize scalable ML pipelines and real-time model-serving systems for billions of interaction records and petabytes of log data.
  • Define performance metrics, evaluate model impact, and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent and promote technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a closely related field.
  • At least 4 years of professional experience in applied machine learning.
  • Experience with machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Java and experience building production-grade ML systems.
  • Preferred experience with search systems, information retrieval, recommendation engines, LLMs, embeddings, and vector search technologies.
  • Preferred experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI, BigQuery, or SageMaker.
  • Preferred hands-on experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras, XGBoost, LightGBM, H2O.ai, MLflow, Kubeflow, or Weights & Biases.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams, communicate complex technical concepts, work independently, and manage ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, FSA, HSA, and Employee Assistance Program benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 public holidays.
  • Six weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits and free electric vehicle charging.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache SparkAWSGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformH2O.aiJavaKerasLightGBMMLflowPythonPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowXGBoost

Categories

Data EngineeringML Engineering
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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