Sr Data Scientist - 11317

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 Data Scientist at Coupa:

Sr. Data Scientists at Coupa support internal teams (primarily product and engineering) by creating and automating machine-language-driven solutions to complex problems. Your work would help improve existing or new machine-language-based product features and would ultimately impact thousands of Coupa customers driving product usage and adoption.

What You'll Do

• Drive the end-to-end development of proprietary LLMs optimized for corporate finance, procurement, and supply chain domains. This includes pre-training, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT/LoRA), and Alignment techniques (RLHF/DPO).
• Partner with data engineering to curate, clean, and tokenize massive volumes of unstructured enterprise data, including supplier contracts, invoices, and complex global compliance regulations.
• Design robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks to ground LLM outputs in verified, internal corporate knowledge bases, minimizing hallucinations.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

• Bachelores/Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent deep industry experience)
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, with a strong, proven track record of training and deploying transformer-based models and LLMs in production environments.
• Experience with Python (and PySpark), and querying languages such as SQL
• Experience working with large datasets - cleaning, interpreting, and automating processes
• A strong understanding of the trade-offs between model size, inference speed, cost, and accuracy, with the ability to choose the right tool for the specific business problem.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, learn on the fly, and use critical thinking skills
• Proven leadership and mentoring skills impacting team success

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Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote, Bangalore, India

Job ID: Coupa-edd3ac99-ffdd-47c2-b25d-e44171722d1d

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-06-02T18:29:53