Senior Principal AI Architect, Coupa

$190.4-259k

Python

Java

Ruby

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Foster City, CA

Business spending management platform

Be an early applicant

Business spending management platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSaaS

Be an early applicant

$190.4-259k

Python

Java

Ruby

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Foster City, CA

1001+ employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSaaS

Company mission

To provide a clear idea of business value for clients.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

What the job involves

As an AI Architect, you’ll lead the charge - defining and driving the architectural vision that powers our next-generation Autonomous Spend Management platform
You'll design intelligent, adaptive systems that help businesses optimize spend, streamline supplier collaboration, and operate with greater autonomy and scale
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

Our take

In 2006, Noah Eisner co-founded Coupa with Ravi Thakur, two fintech start-up specialists as a provider of business spending management (BSM) services. Coupa has grown into its niche with its comprehensive platform allowing companies greater control over their spending, supply network and chain optimization, liquidity management and solutions for payment.

Coupa has been recognized as a leading brand in third party risk management (TPRM). Using artificial intelligence software, its TPRM software takes data from hundreds of sources and generates risk flags across the entire platform, informing the user’s processing decisions.

TPRM integrates into Coupa’s business spending management systems to provide one comprehensive platform, a feat that gives it a definitive edge when it comes to secure management of company funds. Acquired in early 2023 by Thoma Bravo, Coupa is a company to watch, as progress in AI software could open opportunities for greater software automation on its platform.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Trustpilot (1.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jun 2015

$80m

SERIES G

Mar 2014

$40m

SERIES F

Total funding: $169m

Company benefits

Employee stock purchase program
Health benefits for employees and their families
Retirement and savings plans
Flexible work environment

Company HQ

Town Center, Foster City, CA

Leadership

J. Charles Goodman

(Chairman of the Board, not founder)

Serves as Chairman of the Board for multiple companies, including Proofpoint, Anaplan and Bottomline Technologies.

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