Embedded AI Engineer for Compliance Automation

Coinbase, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a founding engineer to embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams, surfacing high-leverage automation opportunities and prototyping on Coinbase's AI platform.

You will translate complex regulatory workflows into engineering requirements and own the automation roadmap with the Chief Compliance Officer. You will define build-vs-buy decisions, ensure outputs are auditable and defensible to regulators, and drive adoption through hands-on sessions with Compliance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes compliance outputs.
• Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them 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 how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
• Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in compliance-tech, RegTech, or financial services environments.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation.
• Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
• Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership, translating complex regulatory workflows — case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, policy management — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
• Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
• Ensure every automated compliance output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators — with auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns, not afterthoughts.
• Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Compliance teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM applications

Prompt engineering

Agent orchestration

Technical advisory

Responsible AI

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a founding engineer to embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams, surfacing high-leverage automation opportunities and prototyping on Coinbase's AI platform.

You will translate complex regulatory workflows into engineering requirements and own the automation roadmap with the Chief Compliance Officer. You will define build-vs-buy decisions, ensure outputs are auditable and defensible to regulators, and drive adoption through hands-on sessions with Compliance