Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture - 11310
Coupa Software6 months ago
Base Salary
$241k - $337k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define architecture for model training, evaluation, and serving across Coupa’s AI platform.
- Evaluate open-weight, commercial, and hybrid model approaches against enterprise accuracy and cost requirements.
- Design custom evaluation frameworks and suites for Coupa-specific tasks and LLM quality.
- Architect training data pipelines, including synthetic data generation and quality validation.
- Design RAG systems with structured knowledge retrieval, vector search, and knowledge graph integration.
- Establish standards for model safety, tenant data isolation, and responsible AI.
- Write code, review pull requests, and prototype technical approaches.
- Mentor and guide ML and data engineers across the US and India.
- Collaborate with product, AI platform, and cloud operations teams.
- Evaluate technical partnerships with AI infrastructure and model providers.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on ML/AI systems.
- Demonstrated experience training or fine-tuning large language models and shipping a fine-tuned or domain-adapted model to production.
- Deep knowledge of transformer architectures, LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, RLHF, DPO, and inference serving.
- Experience with distributed training on GPU clusters.
- Strong understanding of RAG architectures, vector search, embedding models, and knowledge graph integration.
- Hands-on experience with cloud AI/ML services for model hosting, managed training, or equivalent capabilities.
- Experience designing and running custom LLM evaluation suites.
- Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and ML infrastructure tooling.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with enterprise B2B SaaS platforms is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Two company-wide paid wellness days annually.
- Paid birthday time off.
- 40 hours of paid volunteer time off annually.
- Free confidential 24/7/365 employee assistance and counseling resources.
- Business travel medical, safety, planning, and emergency support.
- Employee referral bonus program.
- Location-specific benefits may include medical and dental insurance, retirement or pension plans, and life or accident protection.
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About Coupa Software
Coupa is the leader in AI-native total spend management. Using its trusted, community-generated, $8 trillion dataset, Coupa brings autonomous AI agents, a network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers, and leading apps together on one unified platform to seamlessly automate the buying process and connect to customers in a whole new way. With Coupa, you’ll make margins multiply™.