Staff AI Engineer [L6-2] (Search & Discovery)
$184,000–$376,000 year
On-site · Mountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Staff AI Engineer [L6-2] at Coupang focusing on AI-native applications using Generative AI and LLMs. Own end-to-end lifecycle from rapid prototyping to production deployment, designing systems with vector databases, real-time data pipelines, and RAG frameworks grounded in Coupang’s product catalog and user history. Responsibilities include building AI-first products, implementing advanced prompt engineering and agentic design, ensuring AI reliability and safety, and rapidly prototyping capabilities to advance Coupang’s mission to build the future of commerce. Technical requirements emphasize experience with LLMs, Generative AI, LangChain/LlamaIndex, vector databases, and scalable MLOps; preferred experience in high-traffic consumer AI environments and leading cross-functional AI teams.
Required Qualifications
- 3 years of software engineering experience
- deep specialization in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI systems
- experience owning end-to-end AI applications (generative AI agents, RAG pipelines, LLM fine-tuning)
- experience with prompt engineering and LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- vector databases and semantic search architectures
- scalable MLOps for non-deterministic AI models
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