Sr Data Scientist - 11317

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

• Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together .
• Birthday Time-Off: Celebrate your day! Coupa provides a paid day off on your birthday or another day of your choice within your birthday month .
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO): Giving back is in our DNA. We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually to support the community initiatives and volunteer programs you are passionate about .
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents .
• Business Travel Protection: Travel with peace of mind. Zurich Travel Assist provides medical, safety, pre-trip planning, and emergency support during any business travel .
• Referral Bonus Program: Share the Coupa experience! Receive generous monetary referral bonuses when you successfully refer talented friends or acquaintances who are hired into open roles .