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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Coupang


Job Location:

Mountain View, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 20 August 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 17 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know were doing the right thing when we hear our customers say How did I ever live without Coupang Born out of an obsession to make shopping eating and living easier than ever we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being leading 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 entrepreneurs 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 whats 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.

Role Overview

In Growth Marketing our goal is to increase the number of transacting Customers whilealso growing their purchase frequency and lifetime value. We build core platforms andservices that power Coupangs growth. Various platforms under our portfolio includeSearch Advertising Platform Affiliate Platform Display targeting & re-targeting PlatformCRM Audience Platform Push Marketing Platform and other core marketing servicesfor landing tracking & attribution. ML opportunities across these portfolios includetargeting personalization product & offer recommendations budget optimization real-time bidding creative optimization fraud detection and various will play acritical role in driving innovation in Machine Learning enablement of Growth / Marketingplatforms. You will design & develop end to end machine learning solutions to driveimpact across our portfolio of platforms. You will collaborate with various GrowthMarketing teams to build and deploy ML models & services that will directly help growcustomers increase wallet share and improve ROAS. This is an exceptional opportunityto drive Coupangs growth and create a world where our customers ask How did I everlive without Coupang

What You Will Do

  • Drive end-to-end Engineering and Machine learning methods that have a highdegree of ambiguity scale and complexity
  • Build machine learning models perform proof-of-concept experiment optimize anddeploy your models into production.
  • Establish scalable efficient automated processes for data analysis machine-learning model development model validation and serving.
  • Present results and explain methods to the leadership.
  • Mentor junior engineers on the team and partner teams and help to uplevel MLtalent across the company.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Math or a closely related field
  • 8 years working experience in the engineering teams that build large-scale ML- driven user-facing products
  • Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in working on backend and ML systems for large-scale user-facingproducts and have a good understanding of how they all work.
  • Experience in closely collaborating with other engineering teams to ship new MLtechnologies.
  • The ideal candidate will possess the self-motivation curiosity creativity and initiativeto achieve goals.
  • Extensive knowledge in deep learning
  • Experience with state of the art ML modeling techniques and approaches liketransformers self supervised pre-training generative modeling LLMs etc.
  • Hands-on experience training and applying models at scale.
  • Proficient coding skills in Java C or Python

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of living 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 $15200/year to $261000/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.

General Description of All Benefits

  • 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 commuterbenefits
  • MTV - Free Electric Car Charging Station

General Description of Other Compensation

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.

Recruitment Process

  • Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview Offer
  • The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
  • Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

  • This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
  • Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
  • Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veterans benefits the disabled etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.

Privacy Notice

  • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below: is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or gender (including pregnancy gender identity gender expression sexual orientation transgender status) national origin age disability medical condition HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status marital status military or veteran status use of a trained dog guide or service animal political activities or affiliations citizenship or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability please contact us at .

    Job Requisition ID: R0076831


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