Staff AI Systems Engineer - Remote, Scalable Automation

Coinbase; New York (NY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team to architect and build Agentic AI systems powering automation across Operations, with guardrails and reliable grounding for customer delight. You will lead across cross-functional teams to shape production-grade AI/ML workflows and scalable primitives.

This remote-first company emphasizes quarterly in-person surges and a fast-paced, high-impact environment, with strong emphasis on security, compliance, and customer experience

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with demonstrated experience architecting distributed systems and shipping production AI/ML applications.
• Experience with LLM-based applications, measuring grounding, reducing hallucinations, and building guardrails for reliability.
• Deep expertise designing APIs, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks for agentic AI systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build Agentic AI systems that power Coinbase's compliance automation and other Operations, from intelligent agents through orchestration and guardrails
• Design foundational APIs and measurement frameworks that ensure AI agents are grounded, relevant, and reliably deliver customer delight with minimal hallucination
• Lead technical direction for distributed systems underpinning AI automation, defining architecture patterns and strategic roadmaps in partnership with engineering leadership
• Build reusable primitives and orchestration solutions that enable AI-powered automation to scale across multiple domains beyond the initial customer support and compliance focus
• Mentor engineers on AI system design techniques, coding standards, and production-readiness practices for LLM-based applications

Skills

Distributed systems

AI/ML production apps

LLM-based applications

APIs for agentic AI

Orchestration frameworks

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Core Automation team to architect and build Agentic AI systems powering automation across Operations, with guardrails and reliable grounding for customer delight. You will lead across cross-functional teams to shape production-grade AI/ML workflows and scalable primitives.

This remote-first company emphasizes quarterly in-person surges and a fast-paced, high-impact environment, with strong emphasis on security, compliance, and customer experience