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Machine learning roles sit squarely within EB-2 and EB-3 specialty occupation categories, making them strong candidates for PERM-based green card sponsorship. Employers file a labor certification with DOL before petitioning USCIS, permanently tying your residency to a qualifying ML position rather than a temporary work authorization cycle.
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Role Overview
As our Staff Software Engineer, ML infra Engineer for Search & Discovery organization, you will be in charge of designing and implementing durable & efficient software solutions that handle massive volume of structured and unstructured data needed to train complex ML models and efficiently serve them online.
The Search & Discovery organization is responsible for optimizing customers' navigation experience and driving long-term growth. Every week millions of customers use search in our app or on coupang.com, more than one third of them make purchases. Over half of the Coupang sales are directly attributed to search and recommendation. Many business initiatives and growth strategies are driven or boosted by ranking and recommendation.
This role is an opportunity to build scalable offline and online ML platforms to support ranking and recommendation, and business decision making. You will be handling billions of records of user interaction data, and petabytes of raw log files, and transforming them into data objects that can be easily consumed by engineers and scientists. You will also be responsible for serving complex ML models in real time to help millions of Coupang customers search and discover products. If you are passionate about big data engineering and scalable serving systems, you want to make real business impact, and you are a true problem solver, this is the right job for you.
What You Will Do
- Proactively drive the execution of end-to-end data platform, data quality roadmap for Search & Discovery ML efforts
- Take ownership, consolidate and optimize the Search & Discovery core data logging, processing, and ML model training pipelines
- Develop and scale data infrastructure that powers batch and real-time data processing, monitoring, and debugging for ML experiments
- Drive design and implementation of scalable ML based ranking system and online ML inference services
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product Managers, Indexing Platform Engineers, Ranking Engineers and Data Platform Engineers to understand both the offline and online needs and deliver on those needs
- Research, analyze and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems, coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics or closely related fields
- 5 years of professional experience in applied machine learning
- Experience in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling
- Proficiency in Python and/or Java, with experience in building production grade ML systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance (e.g., I/O and memory tuning)
- Experience with Big Data tools and ETL frameworks (Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark, Scala, Apache Airflow, etc.)
- Experience with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow and Pytorch
- Experience with deploying highly robust and scalable data pipelines processing petabytes of data
- Experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency
- Experience with integrating applications and platforms with cloud technologies (i.e, AWS and GCP)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to conduct meetings and make professional presentations, and explain complex concepts and technical material to non-technical users
- Experience with machine learning platform for search & discovery related rankings is a strong plus
Pay & Benefits
Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.
The base pay for this position ranges from $174,000K/year to $299,000K/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
General Description of All Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
- 401K Plan with Company Match
- 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
- 12 Public Holidays
- Paid Parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station
General Description of Other Compensation
"Other Compensation" includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.
Recruitment Process and Others
Recruitment Process
- Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer
- The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
- Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage
Details to Consider
- This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
- Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
- Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
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Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below: https://www.coupang.jobs/privacy-policy/
Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com.
Job Requisition # 8925
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Machine Learning
Frame your ML credentials for PERM documentation
PERM requires your employer to prove the role genuinely needs a degree in a specific field. Gather transcripts, publications, and project portfolios that show your machine learning specialization maps directly to the advertised job duties, not just general software engineering.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Not every tech employer sponsors green cards, even if they hire on H-1B visa. Search DOL PERM disclosure data to identify companies that have filed labor certifications for ML-specific job titles like 'Machine Learning Engineer' or 'Research Scientist' in the past two years.
Search green card jobs on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by green card sponsorship history, so you're not guessing which ML employers will file PERM. Use it to surface roles where sponsorship is already part of the hiring process, not an afterthought you negotiate later.
Distinguish EB-2 NIW from employer-sponsored EB-2
If your ML research has national-scale impact, a National Interest Waiver lets you self-petition under EB-2 without a PERM labor certification. Published models, patents, or government-funded research often support NIW eligibility, bypassing the employer-driven recruitment advertising timeline entirely.
Negotiate PERM filing timing before signing an offer
Ask prospective employers whether they will file PERM within your first year, since the Department of Labor recruitment and audit process adds 12 to 18 months before USCIS even sees your I-140. Clarifying this in the offer stage prevents multi-year delays after you've already started.
Verify your ML job title matches DOL wage-level categories
PERM prevailing wages are calculated against specific SOC codes. 'Machine Learning Engineer' and 'Data Scientist' map to different O*NET profiles with different wage levels. Confirm with your employer which SOC code they plan to use via OFLC Wage Search before the labor certification is filed.
Green Card Machine Learning: Frequently Asked Questions
Do machine learning roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most machine learning positions qualify under EB-2 because they typically require an advanced degree in computer science, statistics, or a related field and involve work that cannot be performed by someone without that specialized education. Roles at the entry or mid-level that require only a bachelor's degree may fall under EB-3 instead. Your employer's attorney will determine the correct category based on the actual job requirements, not your personal credentials.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for ML engineers?
H-1B is a temporary work visa capped at 85,000 new slots annually and subject to a lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 is permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries outside India and China. The PERM process takes longer up front, often 18 to 24 months from labor certification to I-140 approval, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a renewable temporary status.
Where can I find machine learning jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. It surfaces ML job listings filtered by employers with documented green card sponsorship history, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already filed PERM labor certifications for similar roles rather than cold-applying and asking later whether sponsorship is available.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from my employer?
Your employer must conduct a DOL-supervised recruitment campaign to demonstrate that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the role. For ML positions, this typically includes job postings in specific formats over a mandatory 30-day period. DOL reviews the recruitment results before certifying the labor application, which then becomes the foundation for your I-140 immigrant visa petition with USCIS.
Can I switch ML jobs while my green card application is pending?
Portability rules under AC21 allow you to change to a same or similar ML role once your I-140 has been approved and your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days. 'Same or similar' is evaluated against the SOC code and job duties on the original petition, so moving from one machine learning engineering role to another typically qualifies, but a significant shift in responsibilities could raise questions.