Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Overview

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact.

At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

• Root causes the major defects that are present in Coupang searchers’ experience.
• Propose solutions which address these defects and leverage the state-of-the-art technologies, including ML, DL and LLM.
• Drive end-to-end ML methods that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity
• Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize and deploy your models into production.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
• Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis to develop insights that drive product requirements.
• Present results and explain methods to the leadership.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team and partner teams and help to uplevel ML talent across the company.
• Be a thought leader and able to gain consensus in the organization when needed.

• 8+ years working experience in the engineering teams that build large-scale ML-driven user-facing products
• Experience applying generative AI, multimodal AI, or vision-language models in production environments
• Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying large language models or large vision models at scale
• Proficient coding skills in Java, C++ or Python
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related fields

• Track record of advancing state-of-the-art in LLMs, multimodal AI, or computer vision research (publications, benchmarks, or open-source contributions)
• Ability to think outside-the-box and challenge conventional wisdoms.
• Extensive knowledge in deep learning and computer vision techniques.
• A passion to explore, improve, automate and optimize distributed systems and tools.
• PhD in Computer Science or related Engineering majors

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $159,000 / year in our lowest geographic market to $324,000 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station

“Other Compensation” includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

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