Senior Lead AI Engineer - Data Engineering

Sr. Lead AI Engineer, Data - 11315

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 Sr. Lead AI Engineer, Data at Coupa: 

Coupa's data platform already handles anonymized data exports, commodity classification, supplier normalization, and benchmark metrics across 197+ enterprise tables. The Lead AI Engineer, Data will expand this foundation, building the data curation and pipeline infrastructure that feeds our growing AI model training capabilities. This is a high-volume workstream processing trillions of dollars of enterprise spend data.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of data pipelines that prepare high-quality training data for AI models.
• Build data curation workflows that transform raw enterprise data into labeled, validated datasets.
• Design data quality frameworks: validation, profiling, anomaly detection, lineage tracking.
• Extend existing anonymized data export pipelines to support AI training workloads.
• Implement synthetic data generation pipelines.
• Design schema mappings across 197+ enterprise tables for feature extraction.
• Collaborate with ML engineers on training data format requirements.
• Establish data catalog and metadata management for AI training artifacts.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in data engineering.
• Strong experience with Apache Spark / PySpark and large-scale data processing.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud infrastructure (managed Spark, object storage, managed ETL, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of data quality frameworks and data governance.
• Experience with data anonymization and privacy-preserving data processing.
• Understanding of ML training data requirements.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with data catalog tools and metadata management.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience in B2B SaaS with multi-tenant data preferred.

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Experience Level

Senior Level