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Sr Director, AI Platform Engineering - 11309

Foster City, CA, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-17 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead the next phase of Coupa's AI platform, expanding model training capabilities, deepening data infrastructure, and scaling AI-powered features across the enterprise suite.

Role type

Sr Director, AI Platform Engineering

Builds

AI platform capabilities including model training, data infrastructure, and customer-facing AI experiences

Domain

Enterprise B2B SaaS / AI & Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering leadership (Director/Sr. Director), ML/AI systems architecture, distributed team management, strategic partnerships, data strategy, cloud infrastructure scaling, responsible AI practices

Preferred skills

Experience with frontier model integrations, RAG, fine-tuning, model serving (via careerplan.io/jobs/5ce9eff4-4174-4046-b92c-cf40d4ea5a15-sr-director-ai-platform-engineering-11309-at-coupa)

Technologies

Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML frameworks, data pipelines

Responsibilities

Lead technical strategy and delivery roadmap for AI platform, build and manage high-performing engineering teams across US and India, drive strategic partnership evaluations with AI infrastructure providers, define and prioritize high-impact AI use cases, expand model training and serving infrastructure, own data strategy for AI, coordinate with platform and cloud operations teams, manage budget and hiring plans, present strategy to C-level stakeholders

Seniority

Sr Director, hands-on IC with heavy leadership