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Sr. Engineer, Knowledge Engineering - 11317

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A Sr. Engineer, Knowledge Engineering designs ontologies and builds knowledge graphs from enterprise spend data, enabling AI reasoning over structured relationships.

About this role

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.
  • Skills

    Apache JenaCypherData ModelingElasticsearchElasticsearch DSLGraph DatabasesGremlinGSPARQLJSON-LDNeo4jOntology DesignOWLRDFSPARQL

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