# Max Gu

> Staff Search Machine Learning Engineer at Coupang

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxgu

Working on LLM shopping assistant with Generative Search. 

A guy passionate about search & discovery and sees it as as much of an art as a science, constantly fascinated by the search journey end to end from indexing, query understanding, retrieval, candidate generation, reranking, ML, evaluation and statistics.

## Work Experience
### Staff Search Ranking Software Engineer @ Coupang
Jan 2020 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Working on Routine @ Google Assistant.  Changing millions of users' lives by introducing an easy way to interact with Google Assistant.

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Working on New Ads Product team that pioneers various new product types where ads at Pinterest can be delivered to users.


## Education
### Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-gu-1ab11597

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Source: https://flows.cv/maxgu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxgu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12