AI Engineer

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.

• Own sourcing research initiatives end to end - from framing the problem on real spend data, through experiments, to a model running in production.
• Build what does not exist yet. Most of these problems have no baseline to beat and no off-the-shelf answer - you decide what the first version looks like.
• Turn the network into a training set. Define the datasets, labels and benchmarks that make sourcing problems learnable at all: deriving supervision from historical events and their outcomes, and building evaluation the team can trust.
• Design and run bold experiments with a hacker mindset - fast prototypes, honest baselines and offline evaluation that actually predicts online behaviour.
• Build on our T-LLM foundations wherever documents carry the signal - RFPs, specs, quotes, contracts - reusing in-house architectures we train ourselves.
• Ship with deployment in mind: inference cost, latency, robustness, and what happens when a recommendation is wrong in front of a buyer.
• Work across the company - Coupa's Sourcing product and data teams and our AI Platform team. Document decisions and make the people around you better.

Sourcing needs several kinds of modelling, so we are deliberately open about which one you bring.

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Sourcing is where the money is actually decided.

We are expanding our Data Capture Research team in Prague with a Senior Data Scientist to work on Sourcing.

Which suppliers get invited. How the event is structured. How bids that differ in price, lead time, quality, risk and carbon get compared at all. What a fair price even is. When to award, to whom, and how to split the award across suppliers.

For a researcher this is unusually open ground - not one model family, but several, on the same data:

Part of the work is choosing the right instrument for each - neural networks, gradient boosting, optimisation, bandits, mechanism design - instead of forcing one.

Very little of this has been built with modern ML yet. That is the point of the role: real greenfield problems, a dataset nobody else has, and a product that ships to companies whose margins depend on getting these decisions right.

You will work in a small, senior team of researchers and engineers - the group that built Rossum's production models from scratch - with direct access to Product and the AI Platform team. Ideas that work do not sit on paper; they roll into systems used at scale.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

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:

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.

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