Sr Data Scientist - 11898
Core
Senior Data Scientist building greenfield ML systems for supplier sourcing, forecasting, and award allocation using Coupa's proprietary T-LLM and spend data.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist (sourcing & mechanism design)
Builds
Production ML models for supplier discovery, should-cost modeling, auction design, and combinatorial optimization
Domain
Procurement, supply chain, and market design
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
applied ML, Python, SQL, deep learning, recommendation systems, forecasting, optimization, causal inference, mechanism design, LLM-based systems
Preferred skills
procurement domain knowledge, supply chain expertise
Technologies
T-LLM, neural networks, gradient boosting, bandits
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end sourcing research from problem framing to production deployment; build novel models where no baseline exists; define datasets and evaluation benchmarks; design bold experiments with hacker mindset; leverage T-LLM for document understanding; optimize for inference cost and robustness; collaborate across product and data teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
