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This role is a core part of our AI Delivery \"Build\" team, responsible for translating business challenges into production-ready AI agents and solutions using Google ADK (Agent Developer Kit), Vertex AI, and related Google Cloud services that create measurable business value.\nThis position combines deep technical expertise with practical execution on Google's AI platform, ensuring that our agentic AI solutions are well-designed, robustly built, and successfully deployed. 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Ensure solutions are fair, explainable, and robust.\nAgentic Architecture with ADK: Contribute to the architecture and selection of frameworks, tools, and orchestration logic using Google ADK and Vertex AI to build, manage, and scale multi-agent systems effectively.\n Iterate & Improve: Monitor agent performance in production using Vertex AI monitoring tools, gather feedback, and iteratively improve models, prompts, grounding strategies, and agent logic to drive successful adoption and business impact.\nWhat You Will Bring to Coupa:\nProven experience (3-5+ years) in software engineering, data science, or AI/ML solution delivery with demonstrated Google Cloud Platform expertise.\nHands-on experience with Google Vertex AI, including model deployment, endpoint management, and AI agent development.\nStrong knowledge of AI/ML fundamentals, agentic AI patterns (e.g., ReAct, planning, tool use, function calling), and experience with Google ADK or Vertex AI Agent Builder.\nProficiency in Python and Google Cloud AI/ML libraries including Google ADK, Vertex AI SDK, and common data science libraries (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/JAX).\nExperience with Google Cloud Platform services (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub) and MLOps principles including Vertex AI Pipelines and CI/CD.\nDemonstrated success in building and deploying AI/ML models and solutions into production on cloud platforms.\nDemonstrated experience in a forward deployed role where you owned the business outcome, not just the ticket.\nComfort operating in ambiguity. 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