Staff AI Automation Engineer — Scalable Agentic Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Jackson (MS); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team. You will architect and build Agentic AI systems that transform how Coinbase operates, driving automation and customer experiences at scale.

You will lead API design, orchestration, and measurement frameworks, ensuring reliability and minimal hallucination while guiding cross-functional teams on production-ready AI systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Experience with LLM-based applications, grounding and guardrails.
• Deep expertise designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems powering compliance automation and operations.
• Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks for grounded AI agents.
• Lead technical direction for distributed AI automation across domains.
• Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions to scale AI across multiple areas.
• Mentor engineers on AI system design and production readiness for LLM apps.

Skills

Distributed systems

LLM-based apps

API design

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team. You will architect and build Agentic AI systems that transform how Coinbase operates, driving automation and customer experiences at scale.

You will lead API design, orchestration, and measurement frameworks, ensuring reliability and minimal hallucination while guiding cross-functional teams on production-ready AI systems.