Lead AI Engineer

Coupa Software

Applied AI Engineer building the harness that enables supplier agents within Coupa's AI-driven platform. Collaborating and iterating on agentic systems to support AI features and functionality.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇲🇽 MexicoSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and extend the eval pipeline: how we measure task completion, catch regressions, and turn production failures into fixed behaviors.
Work on context management: what the agent sees, when, and how we keep long-horizon tasks coherent without burning tokens.
Design sub-agent patterns: when to fan out, how to compose specialized agents cleanly, and how to keep the parent agent in control of the outcome.
Own document parsing: turning supplier-uploaded invoices, catalogs, and contracts into structured context the agent can reason over.
Wrap Coupa supplier APIs as agent-callable CLI tools, with clean error surfaces and sensible defaults for an agent caller.
Ship supplier-facing skills on top of the harness: the procedural instructions and tool compositions that let the agent handle specific tasks end-to-end.
Debug messy production behavior: why did the agent take that path, where did it get confused, and what tool, context, or harness change fixes it?
Partner with the senior engineer on harness architecture calls as you find gaps while working across the stack.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 3–5 years shipping production software and are strong in Python (TypeScript a plus).
Have shipped at least one LLM-powered feature or product, even if small, and can talk about what went wrong and what you'd do differently.
Are a daily, heavy user of agentic coding tools — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalents.
Have side projects. Real ones. Things you've built because you couldn't stop thinking about them. Ideally things the new generation of AI tools made possible for you to finish.
Write and speak English fluently. Skill authoring is prose-heavy and the team operates in English.
Debug by reading, not by guessing. You reach for logs, traces, and evals before theorizing.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypeScriptLLM-powered featuresdocument parsingagent managementdebuggingproduction software shippingCLI toolstask completion measurementerror handling

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationcritical thinkingattention to detail