Principal QE Engineer/Architect - Automation Testing (10+ Years)- 11936

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 Principal Engineer/Architect at Coupa: 
 
The Architect serves as a technical authority and strategic leader, driving the transformation into an AI-first QE organization. This role is responsible for architecting and developing custom AI testing frameworks and proprietary AI tools designed specifically to test, evaluate, and validate AI-driven products, ensuring high reliability, performance, and scalability across enterprise systems.

What You'll Do: : AI Frameworks & Tool Development ● AI Product Test Frameworks: Design, architect, and build custom test automation frameworks and evaluation pipelines for golden data sets & real time production data explicitly engineered to test non-deterministic AI models and AI-native applications. ● Custom AI Tooling Creation: Develop proprietary AI-driven tooling, including synthetic data generators, LLM evaluation harnesses, prompt regression suites, and self-healing test automation engines. ● Cross-Department Tooling Standards: Provide technical leadership on the design and adoption of AI test tools and automation strategies extending across multiple product departments. Scope of Position & Strategic Impact ● Strategic Architectural Direction: Lead critical, multi-dimensional initiatives that define the technical and business direction of quality engineering across the enterprise. ● Executive Technical Advice: Provide expert technical advice and counsel to executive leadership on broader company initiatives and AI safety/quality gates. ● Critical Problem Resolution: Solve complex design issues and critical technical bottlenecks that impact future products, AI capabilities, and business growth. Knowledge, Innovation & Practice Creation ● AI Quality Practice Evolution: Continually evaluate current quality practices and invent new AI-first strategies to systematically test AI hallucinations, model drift, bias, and output accuracy. ● Cross-Discipline Expertise: Apply subject matter expertise across software architecture, machine learning pipelines, data engineering, and test automation. ● Groundbreaking Methods: Employ innovative, groundbreaking testing methodologies and frameworks to evaluate next-generation AI features. Supervision, Leadership & Communication ● Organizational Goal Setting: Help define long-term organizational goals, establishing ROI benchmarks for internal AI testing tools and framework adoption. ● Engineering Mentorship & Influence: Provide specialized technical guidance, and mentorship to senior engineers across cross-functional teams & influence the adoption of AI Tools across teams. ● Industry Representation: Build internal decision-maker networks and represent the company as a technical spokesperson at external AI and quality engineering industry forums.

What You Will Bring to Coupa: : ● Minimum of 10 years experience working as Principal Engineer or Architect with r ecent 2-4 years of experience in building AI Tooling, Agentic testing frameworks, Eval Pipeline