Lead AI Engineer - 11510
Summary
Lead AI Engineer builds and evaluates LLM-powered agents for spend-management tasks, designing eval pipelines, context management, and sub-agent patterns to automate business decisions.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 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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What You'll Do:
- Build and extend the eval pipeline: how we measure task completion, catch regressions, and turn production failures into fixed behaviors.
- Work on context management: what the agent sees, when, and how we keep long-horizon tasks coherent without burning tokens.
- Design sub-agent patterns: when to fan out, how to compose specialized agents cleanly, and how to keep the parent agent in control of the outcome.
- Own document parsing: turning supplier-uploaded invoices, catalogs, and contracts into structured context the agent can reason over.
- Wrap Coupa supplier APIs as agent-callable CLI tools, with clean error surfaces and sensible defaults for an agent caller.
- Ship supplier-facing skills on top of the harness: the procedural instructions and tool compositions that let the agent handle specific tasks end-to-end.
- Debug messy production behavior: why did the agent take that path, where did it get confused, and what tool, context, or harness change fixes it?
- Partner with the senior engineer on harness architecture calls as you find gaps while working across the stack.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Have 3–5 years shipping production software and are strong in Python (TypeScript a plus).
- Have shipped at least one LLM-powered feature or product, even if small, and can talk about what went wrong and what you'd do differently.
- Are a daily, heavy user of agentic coding tools — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalents.
- Have side projects. Real ones. Things you've built because you couldn't stop thinking about them. Ideally things the new generation of AI tools made possible for you to finish.
- Write and speak English fluently. Skill authoring is prose-heavy and the team operates in English.
- Debug by reading, not by guessing. You reach for logs, traces, and evals before theorizing.
At Coupa, we are 100% committed to creating and nurturing an environment that supports your physical, mental, and community well-being . We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help you and your family thrive:
Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)
- Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together .
- Birthday Time-Off: Celebrate your day! Coupa provides a paid day off on your birthday or another day of your choice within your birthday month .
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO): Giving back is in our DNA. We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually to support the community initiatives and volunteer programs you are passionate about .
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents .
- Business Travel Protection: Travel with peace of mind. Zurich Travel Assist provides medical, safety, pre-trip planning, and emergency support during any business travel .
- Referral Bonus Program: Share the Coupa experience! Receive generous monetary referral bonuses when you successfully refer talented friends or acquaintances who are hired into open roles .
Please note: In addition to these global well-being perks, Coupa offers highly competitive, location-specific benefits packages (which include comprehensive medical/dental insurance, retirement/pension plans, and life or accident protection) tailored to your primary work location. Your recruiter will walk you through the specific regional benefits package for this role during the interview process.
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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