Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, architects, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that build the future of trade at Coupa.
You will shape the north star platform architecture
owning and evolving living diagrams and canonical APIs for agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, prompt libraries, and multi-tenant policy enforcement.
Build an end-to-end platform that democratizes AI across the entire engineering team and our partner ecosystem.
Accelerate innovation by owning proofs of concept and lead key RFCs around hierarchical agent memory, multimodal RAG, and multimodal guardrails.
You'll lead by influence
hosting architecture office hours, mentoring senior and principal engineers, authoring technical design docs and blogs, and representing Coupa at leading AI conferences to evangelize the platform vision both internally and externally.

At least 10 years of experience with Python, Go, Java or Ruby
8+ years of experience deploying scalable services on a major cloud provider
2+ years of experience with Agentic AI frameworks
2+ years of experience architecting and developing complex AI systems
Experience as a Principal Engineer or Architect influencing and guiding 50+ engineers
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor multiple engineering teams including other architects and directors.

Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment.
Professional development opportunities.

Principal AI Platform Engineer

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