Embedded AI Engineer for Regulatory Compliance

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a founding engineer to accelerate Compliance automation using generative AI. You will work inside the Office of the CTO, partnering with Compliance leadership to surface high-impact opportunities and prototype solutions on Coinbase's AI platform.

This is a remote-first, but not remote-only role with quarterly in-person surges. You will own the automation roadmap for case resolution, trade surveillance, policy management, and auditability, ensuring outputs are traceable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications with prompt engineering and guardrails.
• Ability to embed with non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with compliance/regulatory systems concepts (transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, audit-ready data).
• Knowledge of multi-agent orchestration, handoffs, escalation and auditability.
• Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering or embedded technical advisory role in compliance-tech/RegTech.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Compliance leadership to surface automation opportunities with high business leverage.
• Prototype quickly using Coinbase's AI platform as the default foundation.
• Own the Compliance automation roadmap with leadership and translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Define build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling.
• Ensure automated outputs are auditable, defensible, and compliant with regulators.
• Drive adoption through brown-bag sessions, walkthroughs, and feedback loops.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM deployments

Prompt engineering

Human-in-the-loop

Domain embedding

RegTech/compliance

Multi-agent orchestration

Forward Deployed Engineering

Responsible AI usage

Tools

LLM platform

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a founding engineer to accelerate Compliance automation using generative AI. You will work inside the Office of the CTO, partnering with Compliance leadership to surface high-impact opportunities and prototype solutions on Coinbase's AI platform.

This is a remote-first, but not remote-only role with quarterly in-person surges. You will own the automation roadmap for case resolution, trade surveillance, policy management, and auditability, ensuring outputs are traceable