Applied AI Engineer

About Scoutbee

At Scoutbee, we've built the world's most sophisticated AI-powered supplier intelligence platform through rigorous innovation and engineering excellence. Now, as we join forces with Coupa, we’re maintaining our distinctive team culture while scaling our technical impact globally. By integrating our cutting-edge AI search algorithms and rich supplier data with Coupa’s $8T+ dataset, we’re solving complex discovery problems at an unprecedented scale. As a high-velocity team within Coupa, we maintain our technical autonomy and rapid development cycles, all while gaining the resources to push the boundaries of what’s possible. If you’re passionate about applied AI, machine learning, and building systems that transform how businesses connect worldwide, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

Scoutbee is launching the Applied AI Lab at Coupa, a small, highly skilled team dedicated to embedding AI into Coupa’s products and shaping the future of AI-enabled development. We are seeking our first Applied AI Engineer, a founding member who will play a critical role in defining how AI is built and delivered at Coupa.

The role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of AI research and product development. You will work directly with product leaders to design and implement AI-powered applications that deliver measurable value to Coupa’s buyers and suppliers. As a founding engineer, you will also help establish the technical foundation, frameworks, and best practices that will guide AI development across Coupa, while staying deeply engaged in the fast-moving AI ecosystem and experimenting with emerging technologies to keep us at the frontier.

Your role in our beehive:

• Design, build, and deploy AI applications using modern AI building blocks (Leading LLM SDKs, RAG, embeddings, agent orchestration, vector/graph DBs, etc.).
• Develop API-first services that allow existing Coupa product teams to easily integrate AI capabilities.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI solutions in collaboration with product and design teams.
• Establish coding standards, frameworks, and practices for scalable AI feature development.
• Collaborate with data scientists to transformCoupa’s unique transaction dataset into differentiated AI products.
• Ensure all AI solutions adhere to compliance, security, and governance requirements.

What you bring to our beehive:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in AI/ML application development.
• Proficiency in Python, with experience building production-grade APIs.
• Strong knowledge of modern AI techniques: LLMs, RAG, embeddings, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation methods.
• Deeply engaged in the fast-moving AI ecosystem, staying current on the latest innovations and experimenting with emerging technologies in your free time.
• Comfortable working across the stack: data pipelines, backend services, and application logic.
• Experience integrating AI into real-world enterprise workflows is highly desirable.
• Product mindset: ability to collaborate closely with PMs and designers to deliver intuitive, impactful experiences.
• An entrepreneurial spirit: - motivated to build from zero-to-one and thrive in a small, fast-moving team.

Why Join Coupa Applied AI Lab?

• Founding role on a new high-impact team with executive sponsorship.
• Opportunity to shape Coupa’s AI platform, frameworks, and development culture - with strong career growth as the team scalesDirect impact on AI products that will be used by thousands of enterprises and millions of suppliers.
• Work at the frontier of AI technologies while embedding them into practical, business-critical applications.
• Attractive compensation, equity opportunities and benefits.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to help shape the world’s biggest procurement network
• Work cross-functionally with top talent across GTM, product, and platform teams
• Competitive compensation and wellness budgets
• Remote-flexible, mission-driven culture committed to better global procurement

We'd love to hear from you!

At Scoutbee, we value personality, curiosity, and cultural fit more than perfect qualifications. If you’re unsure whether you tick every box, that’s okay. Imposter syndrome and self-doubt are real, but they shouldn’t hold you back. We believe not knowing everything can be a strength. It creates space for growth, learning, and fresh perspectives. We're here to support and learn from each other as we grow together.

Scoutbee is an equal opportunities employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnic background, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.