Senior Data Scientist, Greenfield Sourcing AI

Coupa Software Inc.; Xico; On-site; MXN 1,033,000 - 1,549,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Wellness Days

Birthday Time-Off

Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

Employee Assistance Program

Business Travel Protection

Referral Bonus Program

Job summary

Coupa Software Inc. in Prague (Karlín) is expanding its Data Capture Research team with a Senior Data Scientist to work on Sourcing. You will tackle greenfield problems, design experiments, and build models on a 10M-node supplier network, with access to in-house T-LLM foundations.

You will own end-to-end research initiatives, frame problems on real spend data, and collaborate with Product and AI Platform teams to ship solutions that impact procurement decisions globally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in applied ML, data science, ML engineering or quantitative research, with models or decision systems you took into production.
• Strong Python and real comfort with messy, large-scale data - including SQL and the unglamorous work of making a dataset trustworthy.
• Depth in at least one modelling discipline, curiosity about the rest. Deep learning, recommendation and ranking, forecasting and time series, optimisation and operations research, causal inference and econometrics, RL and bandits, market and mechanism design, or LLM-based systems. Sourcing touches most of these; nobody arrives holding all of them.
• Scientific rigour. Strong experiment design, healthy scepticism about your own metrics, and real care about leakage, baselines, and evaluation that survives contact with production.
• Ownership and curiosity. You are comfortable in a greenfield, ambiguous problem space, and you will talk to product people and procurement experts to find where the value actually is.
• Interest in procurement, supply chains or market design is welcome but not required - we will teach the domain.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing research initiatives end to end - from framing the problem on real spend data, through experiments, to a model running in production.
• Build what does not exist yet. Most of these problems have no baseline to beat and no off-the-shelf answer - you decide what the first version looks like.
• Turn the network into a training set. Define the datasets, labels and benchmarks that make sourcing problems learnable at all: deriving supervision from historical events and their outcomes, and building evaluation the team can trust.
• Design and run bold experiments with a hacker mindset - fast prototypes, honest baselines and offline evaluation that actually predicts online behaviour.
• Build on our T-LLM foundations wherever documents carry the signal - RFPs, specs, quotes, contracts - reusing in-house architectures we train ourselves.
• Ship with deployment in mind: inference cost, latency, robustness, and what happens when a recommendation is wrong in front of a buyer.
• Work across the company - Coupa's Sourcing product and data teams and our AI Platform team. Document decisions and make the people around you better.

Job description

Coupa Software Inc. in Prague (Karlín) is expanding its Data Capture Research team with a Senior Data Scientist to work on Sourcing. You will tackle greenfield problems, design experiments, and build models on a 10M-node supplier network, with access to in-house T-LLM foundations.

You will own end-to-end research initiatives, frame problems on real spend data, and collaborate with Product and AI Platform teams to ship solutions that impact procurement decisions globally.