Senior Principal AI Architect

Summary

Join Coupa, a leader in spend management, and help build the future of global trade with Agentic AI and an Autonomous Buyer-Supplier Network. As a Sr. Principal Engineer, you will lead the architectural vision for our next-generation platform, designing intelligent systems to optimize spend and streamline supplier collaboration. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, shape the platform architecture, build an end-to-end platform democratizing AI, and accelerate innovation through proofs of concept and key RFCs. Lead by influence, mentor engineers, author technical documents, and represent Coupa at AI conferences. Coupa offers a collaborative culture, pioneering technology, and the opportunity to make a global impact.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience with Python, Go, Java or Ruby
• 8+ years of experience deploying scalable services on a major cloud provider
• Must have 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend
• Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence
• Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other
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