Lead Data Scientist - 11852
Core
Senior Data Scientist leading end-to-end research initiatives for Coupa's Sourcing product, focusing on supplier discovery, forecasting, game theory, and multimodal document understanding to optimize procurement decisions.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist (sourcing & mechanism design)
Builds
Production ML models and decision systems for supplier selection, cost modeling, and award allocation
Domain
Procurement, supply chain, and market design
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied ML, Python, SQL, scientific rigour, experiment design, ownership
Preferred skills
Deep learning, recommendation systems, forecasting, optimisation, causal inference, mechanism design, LLMs
Technologies
T-LLM, neural networks, gradient boosting, bandits
Responsibilities
Own sourcing research initiatives from problem framing to production deployment; build novel models for supplier discovery and cost modeling; design datasets and benchmarks; run bold experiments; integrate multimodal document understanding; collaborate with product and AI platform teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
