Sr. Staff, Machine Learning Engineer (Search & Discovery)

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Seoul, South KoreaPosted 2 days ago

Apply on Coupang's career page

Market pay check

Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

Own the Recommendation service as a critical platform driving customer satisfaction and business impact.
Collaborate across global teams to design and build world-class recommendation systems.
Mine vast datasets to extract insights from customer behavior patterns and trends.

What they want

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science,Electrical Engineering,Mathematics,Statistics,or closely related field.
8+ years professional experience in applied AI/ML with large-scale complex datasets.
Proven ability to derive actionable insights from complex datasets using advanced AI/ML.

Nice to have

Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science,Electrical Engineering,Mathematics,Statistics,or related science.
Experience with Recommendation or Search Systems.
Experience with LLMs,PLMs,and embedding models.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Business-level Korean required
English friendliness: High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
Context: Coupang is a global-scale Korean e-commerce public company; Sr. Staff ML role expects advanced technical leadership and cross-functional impact; English proficiency required but Korean business fluency typically expected given scale of internal collaboration.

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