Remote-First Compliance AI Engineer: Frontline Automation

Coinbase, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a founding engineer within Compliance, embedded in the Office of the CTO. You’ll surface automation opportunities, prototype solutions on Coinbase's AI platform, and drive adoption across the Compliance organization.

Partner with Compliance leadership to translate regulatory workflows into engineering requirements, define build-vs-buy, and ensure auditability with human‑in‑the‑loop design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes outputs.
• Ability to embed with non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with compliance concepts: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, audit-ready data handling.
• Knowledge of multi-agent orchestration, handoffs, escalation, and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface high-leverage automation opportunities.
• Prototype quickly using Coinbase's AI platform as the foundation and evaluate net-new builds when appropriate.
• Own the Compliance automation roadmap with leadership, translating regulatory workflows into engineering requirements.
• Define build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling and determine what to build, adopt, procure, or retire.
• Ensure automated outputs are traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators with proper audit trails.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM deployment

Stakeholder embedding

Compliance concepts

Multi-agent orchestration

Forward Deployed Eng

Responsible AI

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a founding engineer within Compliance, embedded in the Office of the CTO. You’ll surface automation opportunities, prototype solutions on Coinbase's AI platform, and drive adoption across the Compliance organization.

Partner with Compliance leadership to translate regulatory workflows into engineering requirements, define build-vs-buy, and ensure auditability with human‑in‑the‑loop design.