Forward-Deployed Engineer, Legal AI (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a founding engineer for the Legal automation team. You will embed with Legal leadership, rapidly prototype AI-enabled workflows, and drive adoption while shaping the automation roadmap for high-leverage legal processes.

You will work inside the CTO office with Legal, ensure outputs are auditable and compliant, and balance build vs. buy decisions to deliver tangible efficiency gains.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with production systems in stakeholder-heavy settings.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering and human-in-the-loop design.
• Embed with non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with contract lifecycle management, regulatory workflows, entity governance.
• Open to learning legal concepts, and comfortable with privilege-sensitive data handling.
• Experience with multi-agent orchestration, handoffs, escalation, and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Legal leadership to surface automation opportunities with high business leverage.
• Prototype quickly using Coinbase's AI platform as the baseline solution.
• Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with executives; translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Define build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling and manage vendor relationships.
• Ensure automated outputs are traceable, auditable, and defensible with proper controls.
• Drive adoption through brown-bag sessions, walkthroughs, and feedback loops.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM deployment

Prompt engineering

Human-in-the-loop

Stakeholder embedding

Legal/compliance

Agent orchestration

RegTech experience

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a founding engineer for the Legal automation team. You will embed with Legal leadership, rapidly prototype AI-enabled workflows, and drive adoption while shaping the automation roadmap for high-leverage legal processes.

You will work inside the CTO office with Legal, ensure outputs are auditable and compliant, and balance build vs. buy decisions to deliver tangible efficiency gains.