# Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture - 11310 at Coupa

- Company: Coupa
- What the company does: Backed by Battery and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://www.coupa.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Foster City, CA, United States
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $241K to $337K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/coupa/6d08cd9a-56bf-458d-8848-3abd02aa7770
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coupa-principal-engineer-ai-ml-architecture-11310/

## About the role

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

## What they're looking for

- Define the architecture for model training, evaluation, and serving across Coupa's AI platform
- Evaluate and select model approaches (open-weight, commercial, and hybrid) against enterprise accuracy and cost requirements
- Design evaluation frameworks that measure model quality on Coupa's 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 that extend our existing RAG infrastructure with structured knowledge retrieval

Tags: Engineering - Americas