Coupang

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Search Ranking

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13 hours 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 with Apache Spark, Airflow, Kubeflow, and MLflow.
  • Process billions of user interaction records and petabytes of raw log files into consumable data objects.
  • Serve complex machine learning models in real time for millions of customers.
  • Define and track performance metrics, identify improvement opportunities, and align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams and mentor engineering talent.

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, statistical modeling, and production-grade ML systems.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Java.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s or PhD, experience with search, information retrieval, recommendation engines, LLMs, embeddings, vector search, and cloud platforms.
  • Preferred experience includes AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI, BigQuery, SageMaker, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras, XGBoost, LightGBM, H2O.ai, MLflow, Kubeflow, and Weights & Biases.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams, communicate complex technical concepts, work independently, and manage ambiguity in fast-paced environments.

Benefits

  • Base pay ranges from $152K/year to $277K/year depending on geographic market, knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • Annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, FSA, HSA, EAP, and 401(k) benefits with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure, 12 public holidays, and six weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits and free electric car charging stations.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache SparkAWSGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformH2O.aiJavaKerasLightGBMMLflowPythonPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowXGBoost
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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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