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We brought the document understanding layer - our proprietary T-LLM (transactional LLM) architectures, which we design and train from scratch, and which read the world's messiest business documents in production, millions of them every week. Now we are pointing the same in-house research capability at a much bigger problem: not just reading the documents, but acting on them.\nAbout the Role\nSourcing is where the money is actually decided.\nWe are expanding our Data Capture Research team in Prague with a Senior Data Scientist to work on Sourcing.\nWhich suppliers get invited. How the event is structured. How bids that differ in price, lead time, quality, risk and carbon get compared at all. What a fair price even is. When to award, to whom, and how to split the award across suppliers.\nFor a researcher this is unusually open ground - not one model family, but several, on the same data:\nRecommendation and retrieval. Supplier discovery: matching demand to the right suppliers across a 10M-node network.\nForecasting and should-cost modelling. What this category, in this region, at this volume, should cost right now.\nGame theory and mechanism design. Auction formats, bidding behaviour, incentives, and competitive dynamics between real counterparties.\nCombinatorial optimisation. Award allocation under volume, capacity and multi-sourcing constraints.\nMultimodal document understanding. RFPs, specs, quotes and contracts carry the actual requirements - and our T-LLM foundations already give us a head start there.\nPart of the work is choosing the right instrument for each - neural networks, gradient boosting, optimisation, bandits, mechanism design - instead of forcing one.\nVery little of this has been built with modern ML yet. That is the point of the role: real greenfield problems, a dataset nobody else has, and a product that ships to companies whose margins depend on getting these decisions right.\nYou 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. Ideas that work do not sit on paper; they roll into systems used at scale.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn sourcing research initiatives end to end - from framing the problem on real spend data, through experiments, to a model running in production.\nBuild what does not exist yet. Most of these problems have no baseline to beat and no off-the-shelf answer - you decide what the first version looks like.\nTurn 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.\nDesign and run bold experiments with a hacker mindset - fast prototypes, honest baselines and offline evaluation that actually predicts online behaviour.\nBuild on our T-LLM foundations wherever documents carry the signal - RFPs, specs, quotes, contracts - reusing in-house architectures we train ourselves.\nShip with deployment in mind: inference cost, latency, robustness, and what happens when a recommendation is wrong in front of a buyer.\nWork across the company - Coupa's Sourcing product and data teams and our AI Platform team. Document decisions and make the people around you better.\nWhat You Will Bring to Coupa\nSourcing needs several kinds of modelling, so we are deliberately open about which one you bring.\n5+ years in applied ML, data science, ML engineering or quantitative research, with models or decision systems you took into production.\nStrong Python and real comfort with messy, large-scale data - including SQL and the unglamorous work of making a dataset trustworthy.\nDepth in at least one modelling discipline, curiosity about the rest. Deep learning, recommendation and ranking, forecasting and time series, optimisation and operations research, causal inference and econometrics, RL and bandits, market and mechanism design, or LLM-based systems. Sourcing touches most of these; nobody arrives holding all of them.\nScientific rigour. Strong experiment design, healthy scepticism about your own metrics, and real care about leakage, baselines, and evaluation that survives contact with production.\nOwnership and curiosity. 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