Senior ML Engineer — Personalization & Real-Time AI (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 214,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Medical, dental, vision

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (L5) to own end-to-end ML initiatives, from problem formulation and feature engineering to production serving and online experimentation. You will ship models and pipelines that influence millions of users across crypto, equities, and prediction markets.

Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape roadmaps, raise the engineering bar, and deliver measurable business impact in a fast, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of ML engineering and software development experience.
• Proven domain experience: recommendation systems, ranking, contextual bandits, or production LLMs.
• Strong backend skills in Python or Go and ML data stacks (PyTorch, Spark/Databricks, Kafka).
• Experience designing offline evaluations and online A/B experiments aligned to metrics.
• Ability to lead complex projects end-to-end and mentor engineers.
• Commitment to responsible AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ML initiatives from problem formulation to production deployment.
• Build multi-stage models for personalized recommendations across platforms.
• Design notification targeting and ranking systems to improve user experience.
• Develop LLM pipelines and real-time market insights.
• Architect low-latency serving and robust feature pipelines.
• Collaborate across Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape the roadmap.

Skills

5+ years ML engineering

Domain expertise

Python/Go backend

Offline/online evaluation

Mentoring

Responsible AI

Tools

PyTorch

Spark/Databricks

Kafka

Ray

Tecton

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (L5) to own end-to-end ML initiatives, from problem formulation and feature engineering to production serving and online experimentation. You will ship models and pipelines that influence millions of users across crypto, equities, and prediction markets.

Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape roadmaps, raise the engineering bar, and deliver measurable business impact in a fast, data-driven environment.