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Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture - 11310

Foster City, CA, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define technical direction for Coupa's AI platform powering production agents, conversational AI, and ML models for enterprise spend management.

Role type

Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture

Builds

Production agents, conversational AI (Navi), customer-built agents, and ML models for classification, fraud detection, and supplier intelligence.

Domain

Enterprise spend management / B2B SaaS

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large language model training and fine-tuning, transformer architectures, training optimization (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, RLHF, DPO), inference serving, distributed training on GPU clusters, RAG architectures, vector search, embedding models, knowledge graph integration, cloud AI/ML services, custom evaluation suites for LLMs, Python, PyTorch

Preferred skills

Enterprise B2B SaaS platforms

Technologies

PyTorch, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs

Responsibilities

Define architecture for model training, evaluation, and serving; Evaluate and select model approaches; Design evaluation frameworks; Drive technical partnership evaluations; Architect training data pipelines; Design RAG systems; Establish technical standards for model safety and data isolation; Write code, review PRs, and prototype; Mentor ML and data engineers; Collaborate with product and cloud operations teams

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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