Staff, Machine Learning Engineer - Coupang Play
Core
Design, build, and operate scalable ML platforms and production services to support OTT content recommendation, personalization, and user viewing experience.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer
Builds
Scalable ML platforms, real-time inference systems, and ML APIs for Coupang Play's OTT service
Domain
Streaming media / Recommendation systems / Personalization
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
End-to-end ML lifecycle management, high-throughput low-latency system design, production ML operations, ML platform architecture, cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership
Preferred skills
Multimodal model expertise, engineering strategy, user engagement optimization
Technologies
(Not explicitly listed)
Responsibilities
Design and operate end-to-end ML platforms covering data processing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and experimentation; Design and develop high-throughput, low-latency real-time inference systems and ML APIs; Ensure stability, availability, observability, and operational efficiency of ML systems in large-scale production environments; Collaborate with ML scientists, data engineers, backend engineers, product managers, and content domain experts to translate business requirements into scalable ML solutions; Provide technical leadership on ML platform architecture, production ML operations, multimodal model utilization, and engineering strategy; Enhance ML platform capabilities to improve recommendation quality and personalization, thereby increasing user engagement metrics such as watch time and click-through rates
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
