The Sr. Engineer, Knowledge Engineering will design and implement ontologies and knowledge graphs, enabling AI models to reason over enterprise spend data.
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 Sr. Engineer, Knowledge Engineering at Coupa:
Coupa's platform spans several engines with rich entity models: suppliers, contracts, commodities, purchase orders, invoices, and more. The Senior Engineer, Knowledge Engineering will formalize these entity relationships into a structured knowledge representation that our AI models can reason over. You will build ontologies and knowledge graphs that enable multi-hop reasoning, connecting our AI capabilities to the deep structure of enterprise spend data.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement an ontology from Coupa's existing data models (hundreds of entity models, relationships, business rules).
- Build and populate a knowledge graph with entity instances and relationship edges.
- Implement graph query interfaces for AI model consumption.
- Design tenant-isolated vs. shared knowledge graph layers.
- Map existing taxonomies and classification hierarchies into the knowledge graph.
- Collaborate with ML engineers to generate ontology-aware training data.
- Evaluate graph storage options (Elasticsearch graph queries, Neptune, Neo4j) and recommend approach.
- Evolve the ontology as AI capabilities expand to additional platform areas.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in knowledge representation, graph systems, or data modeling.
- Experience with graph databases or graph-like query systems (Neo4j, Neptune, Elasticsearch).
- Understanding of ontology design: RDF, JSON-LD, OWL, or pragmatic schema representations.
- Experience with entity resolution and knowledge graph population from structured data.
- Strong data modeling skills: entity-relationship design, hierarchical taxonomies.
- Proficiency in Python and query languages (Cypher, Gremlin, SPARQL, or Elasticsearch DSL).
- Experience with enterprise data models in B2B SaaS is a plus.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
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