Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search Retrieval and Relevance

Role Overview

Search & Discovery is the most critical customer facing experience within Coupang, relevantly match-making the billions of products to customer intent. We are building the next-generation infrastructure to sustain the hypergrowth of the business for the coming years. We are looking for Staff Machine Learning engineers who are experienced and passionate about reasoning LLM, pre-training, Search Retrieval and Relevance projects.

The desired candidate can dive deep into underlying components, design and optimize the stack end-to-end and be a role model for building high-quality machine learning systems and delivering results with grit. Key to this position’s success will require the ability to understand business needs and work backwards to develop technical solutions while working effectively with leaders of individual teams and align technical directions with key stakeholders.

This role will involve working closely with Search senior leadership (VP, Sr. Directors) and will offer the autonomy to identify and solve key Search problems and explore innovations in various areas like deep learning and large language modeling.

What You Will Do

• Build end-end Search & Discovery systems and help design the next-generation AI products to support the business growth
• Execute with the ability to drive key developments and overcome technical blockers
• Ensure solid ML design and operational excellence
• Be metrics driven and can identify big opportunities
• Build strong collaborations with partner teams

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in technology companies.
• Have a broad and deep understanding of key technology areas including LLM, information retrieval, deep learning, large language modeling, data processing, real-time serving.
• Solid track record of delivering large and complex systems with big business impacts.
• Strong design and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communications and collaborations across teams and across functionalities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working experiences on search and recommendations systems.

Pay & Benefits

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. As a condition of employment, Coupang requires employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, subject to legally required accommodations. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com.

Requisition: R0056108