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We are expanding our Data Capture Research team in Prague with a Senior Data Scientist to work on Sourcing.
How bids that differ in price, lead time, quality, risk and carbon get compared at all. For a researcher this is unusually open ground - not one model family, but several, on the same data:
Supplier discovery: matching demand to the right suppliers across a 10M-node network.
Game theory and mechanism design. Part of the work is choosing the right instrument for each - neural networks, gradient boosting, optimisation, bandits, mechanism design - instead of forcing one.
You will work in a small, senior team of researchers and engineers - the group that built Rossum's production models from scratch - with direct access to Product and the AI Platform team. Own sourcing research initiatives end to end - from framing the problem on real spend data,



through experiments, to a model running in production.
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.
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. 10+ 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.
~ Modern ML has barely been applied to sourcing, inside a platform that already has the users, the workflows and the data.
~ Data nobody else has: $10 trillion of transacted spend, 10M+ buyers and suppliers, and the documents behind all of it.
~ You frame the problem, choose the method,



and see it working in front of buyers - no research‐to‐product handoff.
~ Global impact: Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)
Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness daysoff each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents.
In addition to these global well-being perks, Coupa offers highly competitive, location-specific benefits packages (which include comprehensive medical/dental insurance, retirement/pension plans, and life or accident protection) tailored to your primary work location. Your recruiter will walk you through the specific regional benefits package for this role during the interview process.
Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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