Coupang

Senior Staff ll, AI Engineer (L7-2)

Coupang
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5 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$171k - $351k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, architect, and own end-to-end generative AI and LLM applications for new e-commerce experiences.
  • Develop and manage production AI infrastructure, including vector databases, high-throughput inference, and real-time context-enrichment data pipelines.
  • 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.
  • Enforce AI reliability, monitoring, and safety practices while reducing hallucinations and optimizing large-scale costs.
  • Rapidly prototype and productionize new AI capabilities.

Requirements

  • At least three years of software engineering experience with strong coding and code review skills.
  • Deep specialization in leveraging LLMs, generative AI systems, and AI productivity tools.
  • Experience owning end-to-end generative AI applications, including agents, conversational interfaces, RAG pipelines, LLM fine-tuning, and AI-powered automation.
  • Proven track record taking AI-first products from concept to production with measurable product or operational impact.
  • Strong understanding of prompt engineering, LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, vector databases, semantic search architectures, and scalable MLOps.
  • Experience in high-traffic consumer AI environments, such as assistants, search and recommendation systems, or generative content platforms, is preferred.
  • Experience contributing to cross-functional AI research and product engineering teams and launching zero-to-one generative AI products is preferred.
  • Exposure to e-commerce search and experience deploying non-deterministic systems at scale are preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure
  • 12 public holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Free electric car charging station

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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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