Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture - 11310
Coupa Software7 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 Software provides a cloud-based spend management platform used by enterprises to manage procurement, sourcing, invoicing, and supplier interactions. It sells SaaS subscriptions and services that help finance and operations teams control and analyze business spending across a large buyer–supplier network. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Coupa is privately held under Thoma Bravo ownership and serves global customers across many industries.