Senior ML Engineer - Remote, Personalization & Recommendations

Coinbase, Inc.; Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Equity option

Medical/dental/vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (L5) on the ML & Discovery team within Consumer Growth. You will own end-to-end ML initiatives, from problem formulation, offline evaluation, to production serving and online experiments, delivering measurable engagement and trading improvements across crypto, equities, derivatives, and prediction markets.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape the roadmap, raise engineering quality, and mentor junior

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering and software development.
• Proven track record in domains such as recommendation systems, ranking, retrieval, or production LLM apps.
• Strong backend software skills in Python or Go with modern ML/data stacks.
• Deep knowledge of offline evaluation and online A/B experiments tied to metrics.
• Ability to drive complex projects end-to-end and mentor junior engineers.
• Responsible AI practices with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ML initiatives from problem formulation to production deployment and online testing.
• Build and iterate on multi-stage recommendation, retrieval, and contextual bandit models for personalized experiences across assets.
• Design intelligent notification and targeting systems to improve user experience and engagement.
• Develop production LLM pipelines, grounding workflows, and real-time market insights.
• Architect low-latency model serving and real-time feature pipelines, raising reliability.
• Mentor L3-L4 engineers and help shape the team roadmap with Product and Data Science.

Skills

End-to-end ML initiatives

Production ML systems

Recommendation systems

Offline evaluation

Mentor engineers

Tools

PyTorch

Spark/Databricks

Kafka

Ray

Tecton

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (L5) on the ML & Discovery team within Consumer Growth. You will own end-to-end ML initiatives, from problem formulation, offline evaluation, to production serving and online experiments, delivering measurable engagement and trading improvements across crypto, equities, derivatives, and prediction markets.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape the roadmap, raise engineering quality, and mentor junior