Senior Staff, Machine Learning Engineer (Coupang Eats Search)

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Seoul, South KoreaPosted 4 days ago

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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 ML strategy,metrics,execution for brand,store,dish,product retrieval and conversion.
Improve query intent understanding,menu representation,typo tolerance,synonym expansion,query rewriting.
Advance lexical,semantic,hybrid retrieval with scalable,low-latency indexing and feature pipelines.

What they want

10+ years of experience in search,information retrieval,natural language processing.
Deep expertise in product understanding,retrieval,relevance,modern LLM techniques.
Proven track record delivering large-scale consumer search systems with measurable impact.

Nice to have

Food delivery,local commerce,e-commerce,or advertising industry experience.
Hyperlocal,time-sensitive ranking using location,availability,delivery time,price signals.
Multilingual or localized search experience across multiple international markets.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Korean not required
English friendliness: High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
Context: Role encompasses Korean hyperlocal and time-sensitive delivery search; significantly different optimization problem from Western commerce search systems.

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