Senior Staff, Machine Learning Engineer (Coupang Eats Search)
Core
Lead machine learning innovations for retrieval and relevance in Coupang Eats Search, shaping how customers discover brands, stores, dishes, and products across food delivery and quick commerce.
Role type
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Search & NLP)
Builds
End-to-end search stack including query understanding, candidate retrieval, relevance ranking, and quality evaluation for hyperlocal commerce.
Domain
Food delivery, quick commerce, e-commerce, search, NLP
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Search and information retrieval, NLP, product understanding, modern LLM techniques, distributed low-latency system design, experimentation and diagnostics, team leadership
Preferred skills
Food delivery and local commerce experience, hyperlocal time-sensitive ranking, multilingual search, embeddings and transformers, publications in search/NLP
Technologies
LLMs, embeddings, transformers, hybrid retrieval, feature pipelines
Responsibilities
Own ML strategy and metrics for retrieval and conversion; improve query intent and entity understanding; design scalable low-latency retrieval strategies; establish rigorous quality frameworks with offline/online evaluation; apply modern ML and LLMs to query understanding and candidate generation; build reusable capabilities across markets; coach ML and infra engineers.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with organizational leadership
