The Role
As a Sr. Lead AI Engineer, you will develop the agent harness for supplier agents, focusing on platform design and cloud infrastructure deployment while collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
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:
- Design and build the agent harness — skill loading, tool invocation, context management, the execution sandbox, compaction patterns and sub-agents.
- Stand up the evaluation pipeline: how we measure skill effectiveness, catch regressions, and turn production failures into fixed behaviors.
- Partner with product and engineering to ship the first 3–5 supplier-facing use cases (invoicing, catalog, strategic views) on top of the platform you build.
- Define and maintain the cloud deployment and configuration for the platform. How it gets to production, how it scales, and how it stays secure.
- Make architectural calls on runtime isolation, credential handling, audit logging, and tenant separation, in collaboration with DevOps specialists.
- Raise the bar for the rest of the team on how to build with agentic tooling, what to automate, what to verify, and what to leave to humans.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 6+ years of experience shipping production software with strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Deep engineering expertise across CI/CD, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized services in production, with a strong understanding of networking, infrastructure, secrets management, and least-privilege IAM.
- Experience building platform or infrastructure tooling that other engineers rely on, such as CLIs, runtimes, or internal developer platforms.
- Proven experience delivering at least one LLM-powered product to production, with a strong understanding of what makes AI products successful in the real world.
- Extensive experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar, with a clear point of view on how to use them effectively.
- A passion for building beyond work, demonstrated through meaningful side projects or personal products—particularly those accelerated by modern AI tooling.
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to balance model performance, latency, reliability, cost, and user experience when designing solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, as the team collaborates and documents extensively in English.
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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Skills Required
- 6+ years shipping production software
- Strong in Python and/or TypeScript
- Built platform or infrastructure systems
- Shipped LLM-powered products
- Deployed and operated containerized services
- Fluent in English
What the Team is Saying
Aditya Maheshwari
Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud
Alex Moon
Operations Analyst, Order Management
Jose Miguel Jimenez
Procurement
Jessica Fonseca
Technical Support Specialist
Daniela Aristizábal
Associate Planning & Operations Analyst
Coupa Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and mental‑wellness resources for employees and dependents begin on the first day of employment. Recent updates to health‑insurance programs this year indicate active management of core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible Time Off, floating holidays, paid parental leave, and dedicated volunteer time off are emphasized as part of standard offerings. A global minimum vacation allowance outside the U.S. is also advertised.
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Retirement Support — Competitive compensation is paired with retirement savings programs, including a U.S. 401(k) with company match. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also referenced as part of long‑term financial support.
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The Company
What We Do
Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.
Why Work With Us
At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our virtual-first approach is intentional. It gives you the freedom to do your best work in a space that supports focus, balance, and creativity, while staying connected to a global team of changemakers who are redefining the future of business spend
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