Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture - 11310
Coupa Softwareabout 2 months ago
Base Salary
$241k - $313k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture for model training, evaluation, and serving across Coupa's AI platform.
- Evaluate and select model approaches against enterprise accuracy and cost requirements.
- Design evaluation frameworks that measure model quality on specific task categories.
- Drive technical partnership evaluations with AI infrastructure and model providers.
- Architect training data pipelines, including synthetic data generation and quality validation.
- Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to enhance existing infrastructure.
- Establish technical standards for model safety and responsible AI.
- Write code, review PRs, and prototype approaches during early phases.
- Mentor and guide ML and data engineers across the US and India.
- Collaborate with product, AI platform, and cloud operations teams.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on ML/AI systems.
- Demonstrated experience training or fine-tuning large language models.
- Deep knowledge of transformer architectures and training optimization techniques.
- Experience with distributed training on GPU clusters.
- Strong understanding of RAG architectures and knowledge graph integration.
- Hands-on experience with cloud AI/ML services.
- Experience designing and running custom evaluation suites for LLMs.
- Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and ML infrastructure tooling.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with enterprise B2B SaaS platforms preferred.