Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture - 11310

CoupaFoster City🇺🇸United StatesPosted Mar 17, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As a Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture at Coupa, you will shape the future of AI in spend management, defining technical direction and prototyping innovative solutions within a collaborative, globally impactful environment. This hybrid role is ideal for experienced leaders who thrive on building cutting-edge AI systems and guiding engineering teams, offering a competitive compensation package between $241,000 and $337,400 annually. Apply to make a significant impact and advance your career at the forefront of business intelligence technology.

Quick Overview

Salary

$241k - $337.4k/yr

Seniority

Leader

Employment type

Director

Work mode

Hybrid

Location

Foster City, United States

Posted

6 months ago

Job Description

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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The Impact of a Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture at Coupa:

Coupa's AI platform powers production agents, conversational AI (Navi), customer-built agents (Agent Studio), and a suite of ML models for classification, fraud detection, and supplier intelligence. The Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture will define the technical direction for the next generation of these capabilities, designing how we train, evaluate, and serve models that are deeply tuned to enterprise spend management. Reporting to the Sr. Director, you will be hands-on in architecture and prototyping while guiding a growing team of ML and data engineers.