Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Coupang Internal•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

As our Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Coupang Media Group, Ads Quality, you will be responsible for developing, designing machine learning models, optimization algorithms and new product features for our advertising platform. The Coupang Media Group (CMG) is responsible for providing vendors that sell their products on Coupang with a host of marketing products and services. Our group is responsible for advertising brands and products inside our e-commerce website. This is an opportunity to be part of building up a new development organization with strong revenue potential inside a successful company. We’re building full-stack engineering teams to handle large scale advertising problems, including real-time behavioral targeting, auctioning and bidding systems and search-based advertising. In this role you will be responsible for innovating and building our new ad quality stack for our ads platform and eventually extend it into a full ad exchange, DSP, and SSP.

Requirements

8+ years of industry software engineering experience in machine learning, statistics, information retrieval
Deep knowledge in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling
Excellent communicator, both to technical and business audiences
Strong problem-solving skills
Self -starter and innovator who likes to solve complex problems
Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results
Ability to deal with ambiguity in business and technology
Ability to work in multi-cultural, cross functional team
Bachelors’ degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, science or equivalent

Nice To Haves

Experience working with AWS (Amazon web services)
Experience with advertising systems/Search advertising/Advertising Marketplace
Experience working in startups

Responsibilities

Design features and build large-scale machine learning models and systems to improve ad targeting, relevance, ranking, and engagement
Develop new techniques for automated mechanisms, e.g. automated bidding, query expansion etc. for improving advertising platform efficiency
Develop new techniques for providing suggestions for advertisers to identify opportunities in the marketplace and improve their return on investments
Architect our machine learning platform at internet scale
Effectively lead projects across teams and mentor the junior developers
Work with product and sales teams to design and implement new ad product features