Senior Staff, Machine Learning Engineer
Core
Own machine learning strategy and execution to improve brand, store, dish, and product retrieval and conversion for a food delivery platform.
Role type
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Search & NLP)
Builds
Scalable, low-latency lexical, semantic, and hybrid retrieval systems for consumer search
Domain
Food delivery, local commerce, e-commerce (via careerplan.io/jobs/22184-senior-staff-machine-learning-engineer-at-coupang)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Search and information retrieval, NLP, modern LLM techniques, distributed low-latency system design, embeddings, transformers, model lifecycle management, offline evaluation, online experimentation
Preferred skills
Hyperlocal time-sensitive ranking, multilingual search, cuisine taxonomies, marketplace signals, publications in search/NLP
Technologies
LLMs, embeddings, transformers
Responsibilities
Develop scalable retrieval strategies including indexing and feature pipelines; establish evaluation frameworks and guardrail metrics; coach ML and infrastructure engineers; lead multi-year ML roadmaps and cross-functional projects
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
