Coupang Global LLC

Coupang Global LLC

Senior Staff Ranking Engineer, Personalization

Mountain View, USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$18k-$21kDetected 49 days ago
PythonJavaBigQueryAWSGCPCloud PlatformsMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchSparkAirflowData EngineeringData ScienceNLPLLMsStatisticsA/B TestingProduct ManagementElectrical EngineeringEpicCommunication

About the role

  • The Search & Discovery organization is responsible for optimizing customers' navigation experience and driving long-term growth.
  • Every week millions of customers use search in our app or on coupang.com, more than one third of them make purchases.
  • Over half of the Coupang sales are directly attributed to search and recommendation.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize ML pipelines using tools such as Apache Spark, Airflow, Kubeflow, and MLflow, ensuring reproducibility, scalability, and operational excellence
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data science teams to align technical solutions with business goals and customer experience

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics or closely related fields
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Java, with experience in building production grade ML systems

Nice to have

  • Master's or PhD in relevant technical fields
  • Experience with search systems, information retrieval or recommendation engines
  • Experience with LLMs, embeddings, and vector search technologies
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform including services like Vertex AI, BigQuery or SageMaker
  • Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
  • Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit learn, Keras, XGBoost, LightGMB, and H2o.ai
  • Experience with ML lifecycle tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases, or Amazon SageMaker
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Compensation

  • Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets.

Benefits

  • Design features and build large-scale machine learning models and systems to improve ad targeting, relevance, ranking, and engagement
  • Drive innovation in search relevance and user intent modeling using large language models (LLMs), embedding-based retrieval, and multi-modal learning
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation and continuous learning
  • 7+ years of professional experience in applied machine learning
  • Experience in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling
  • 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.
  • Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.

Company info

  • You will also be responsible for serving complex ML models in real time to help millions of Coupang customers search and discover products.
  • Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the

Visa & Work Authorization

  • litary 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

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