Embedded AI Engineer - Compliance Automation

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company building the future of finance. This role sits inside the Office of the CTO, embedded in Compliance, focusing on automating regulatory workflows and building AI-powered tooling with a strong emphasis on auditability and governance.

You will partner with Compliance leaders to rapidly prototype solutions, define the automation roadmap, and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, risk management, and regulatory readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop design.
• Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory systems concepts: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling.
• Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including handoffs, escalation, and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Compliance leadership to surface automation opportunities, surface workflows with greatest business leverage.
• Prototype quickly using Coinbase's AI platform as the default foundation before net-new builds.
• Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with leadership, translating workflows into engineering requirements.
• Define build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling and evaluate what to build, adopt, procure, or retire.
• Ensure every automated compliance output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators with auditability and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM deployment

Prompt engineering

Stakeholder embedding

Auditability & governance

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company building the future of finance. This role sits inside the Office of the CTO, embedded in Compliance, focusing on automating regulatory workflows and building AI-powered tooling with a strong emphasis on auditability and governance.

You will partner with Compliance leaders to rapidly prototype solutions, define the automation roadmap, and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, risk management, and regulatory readiness.