Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Offsite Ads

In Coupang Ads, we build one of the fastest growing advertising platforms based on Coupang’s e-commerce platform. Coupang is investing in building a world-class online marketing business where we run relevant ads and promotions across our website and mobile app.

Offsite Advertising is a product where we offer the opportunity to integrate advertising beyond Coupang’s website and apps, to Coupang’s affiliate partners and other popular advertising channels in South Korea and beyond, such as Google, Facebook, Naver, Coupang's affiliate partner network and various ad exchange networks.

This is an opportunity to be part of building up a new development organization with strong revenue potential inside a successful company. We’re building full-stack engineering teams to handle large scale advertising problems, including real-time behavioral targeting, auctioning and bidding systems and search-based advertising. In this role you will be responsible for innovating and building ad serving systems specific to offsite advertising on ad exchanges and publisher networks.

What You Will Do

1. Design features and build large-scale machine learning models and systems to improve ad targeting, relevance, ranking, and engagement.
2. Develop new techniques for automated mechanisms, e.g. automated bidding, query expansion etc. for improving advertising platform efficiency.
3. Develop new techniques for providing suggestions for advertisers to identify opportunities in the marketplace and improve their return on investments.
4. Architect our machine learning platform at internet scale.
5. Effectively lead projects across teams and mentor the junior developers.
6. Work with product and sales teams to design and implement new ad product features.

Basic Qualifications

1. 8+ years of industry software engineering experience in machine learning, statistics, information retrieval.
2. Deep knowledge in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling.
3. Excellent communicator, both to technical and business audiences.
4. Strong problem-solving skills.
5. Self-starter and innovator who likes to solve complex problems.
6. Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results.
7. Ability to deal with ambiguity in business and technology.
8. Ability to work in a multi-cultural, cross-functional team.
9. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, science or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with ads recommendation and marketplace advertising.
2. Experience with real-time bidding on open-internet ad exchanges.
3. Experience working with AWS (Amazon web services).
4. Experience working in startups.

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor 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 $159,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $324,000/year in our highest geographic market. 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

1. Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance.
2. Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA).
3. Long-term/Short-term Disability.
4. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program.
5. 401K Plan with Company Match.
6. 18-21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on tenure.
7. 12 Public Holidays.
8. Paid Parental leave.
9. Pre-tax commuter benefits.
10. 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.

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 the recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at .

Equal Opportunities for All

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.