Remote-First Staff AI Systems Engineer: Automation

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

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team to architect AI systems scaling across the company. You will lead production AI initiatives, define architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver compliant automation at scale.

You will mentor engineers on design techniques and production readiness for LLM-based applications, shaping frameworks used company-wide.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with distributed systems and production AI/ML experience.
• Experience with LLM-based applications, grounding, and guardrails to reduce hallucinations.
• Expertise designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for agentic AI at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems powering compliance automation and operations.
• Design APIs and measurement frameworks ensuring grounded, low-hallucination AI agents.
• Lead technical direction for distributed AI automation, defining patterns and roadmaps.
• Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions to scale AI across domains.
• Mentor engineers on AI system design, coding standards, and production readiness for LLM apps.

Skills

Distributed systems design

LLM-based applications

APIs & orchestration

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team to architect AI systems scaling across the company. You will lead production AI initiatives, define architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver compliant automation at scale.

You will mentor engineers on design techniques and production readiness for LLM-based applications, shaping frameworks used company-wide.