Senior Staff ll, Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead)

Coupang•Mountain View, CA

12h

About The Position

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Search and Discovery, you will leverage the most advanced algorithms to improve Coupang’s product search and discovery quality. You are expected to be a leading expert in one or multiple areas including information retrieval, recommendation systems, machine learning, deep learning or natural language processing. The ideal candidates are pragmatic, resourceful, and embrace challenges that are seemingly impossible. The ideal candidates also have rich industry experience and a track record of delivering highly impactful projects.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in related fields including Search, Information Retrieval, RecSys, ML, DL or NLP.
Proficient coding skills in Java, C++ or Python
Problem solver, Pragmatic and Open-minded
Master Degree in Computer Science or related fields.
Experience with handling large data volumes in a distributed environment

Nice To Haves

Love to explore new territory of technology and go deep on domain knowledge.
Ability to think outside-the-box and challenge conventional wisdom.
A passion to explore, improve, automate and optimize distributed systems and tools.
PhD in Computer Science or related Engineering majors
Bonus points for experience at ecommerce or social network or search companies

Responsibilities

Root causes the bottle neck of the current search and recommendation systems and quantifies the defects.
Propose solutions which address the search and discovery defects and leverage the state-of-the-art technologies, including ML, DL and large language model.
Implement the solutions and conduct AB tests.
Be a thought leader and able to gain consensus in the organization when needed.
Personalization ranking model and its integration to Search ranking stack.
Personalized retrieval
Recommendation model for all Discovery interfaces.
User understanding and modeling