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Get Access To All JobsWe exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, "How did I ever live without Coupang?" Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we're collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.
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.
Privacy Notice
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
We exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, "How did I ever live without Coupang?" Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we're collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.
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.
Privacy Notice
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 as a ML Research Engineer
Document your research contributions before applying
Publications, patents, conference presentations, and open-source contributions strengthen your PERM case and support an EB-2 classification. Compile these into a credentials portfolio before you reach the offer stage, since employers will need them for the I-140 petition.
Target labs with established PERM filing history
Research divisions at large tech companies and national labs file PERM applications regularly and have dedicated immigration counsel on retainer. These employers already understand the ML Research Engineer job duties DOL expects to see in the labor certification.
Use Migrate Mate to find green-card-sponsoring ML employers
Search Migrate Mate to surface employers with active EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history for research engineering roles. This filters out postings where sponsorship is stated as possible but has no track record behind it.
Understand how your country affects priority date timing
EB-2 and EB-3 visa backlogs vary significantly by birth country. If you're born in India or China, the wait for a current priority date can stretch years, so confirming your category and country situation early shapes how you negotiate offer timelines with employers.
Confirm the job description matches DOL specialty occupation criteria
PERM requires the posted role to specify a minimum of a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Vague ML Research Engineer descriptions listing preferred qualifications instead of required ones can trigger a DOL audit or denial during labor certification.
Ask whether the employer uses concurrent I-485 filing
When a visa number is immediately available, some employers file the I-485 adjustment of status concurrently with the I-140, cutting overall processing time. Clarify this with the employer's immigration counsel before signing an offer, since USCIS processing windows affect your work authorization continuity.
Green Card ML Research Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an ML Research Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
ML Research Engineer positions typically qualify for EB-2 because the role requires at minimum a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus at least five years of progressive research experience in machine learning or a related field. Employers document this requirement in the PERM labor certification. EB-3 is available for candidates whose credentials or the specific job description fit the skilled worker category instead.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery and a six-year maximum stay. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no renewal required. There is no lottery for EB-2 or EB-3 categories, though per-country visa backlogs can extend the timeline for nationals of India and China. The PERM process also requires the employer to conduct a supervised recruitment process with DOL before filing the I-140 petition.
What does the PERM labor certification process look like for an ML Research Engineer?
The employer files a PERM application with DOL after completing a supervised recruitment process that demonstrates no qualified U.S. workers were available for the role. For ML Research Engineer positions, the job description must specify a minimum degree requirement in a directly related field such as computer science or machine learning. DOL processing currently averages several months before certification, after which the employer files the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS.
How can I find ML Research Engineer jobs where the employer will sponsor a green card?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for employers with verified EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history for research engineering roles, so you're not relying on job postings that claim sponsorship is possible without any track record. Filtering by sponsorship history saves significant time compared to applying broadly and discovering late in the process that an employer won't commit to PERM.
Can I use O*NET to verify that my ML Research Engineer role qualifies as a specialty occupation?
Yes. The O*NET occupation profile for machine learning or related research engineering titles lists the typical education and training requirements that DOL uses when reviewing PERM applications. If the O*NET profile for your specific job code shows a requirement of a bachelor's or higher degree in a directly related field, that supports the employer's specialty occupation argument in both the PERM labor certification and the I-140 petition.