Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Compliance Automation (Platform)

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for the Compliance Automation team. You will own the ML architecture for production compliance agents, building Agentic AI solutions that automate investigations, decision support, and related workflows.

You will partner with Compliance to ensure outputs meet regulatory standards and mentor engineers on responsible AI practices. The role emphasizes leadership in ML system design, prompt engineering, and governance, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 8+ years in machine learning and software engineering.
• Shipping LLM-based or Agentic AI applications to production.
• Experience in compliance, regulatory tech, or regulated domains.
• Strong Python proficiency with GenAI frameworks.
• Experience building evaluation/monitoring for ML models.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build production Agentic AI systems for compliance automation, incl. LLM-powered agents and orchestration pipelines.
• Own ML technical direction for compliance agents, incl. model selection, prompt engineering, grounding and guardrails.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks to quantify agent performance and detect drift and hallucinations.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal and Operations to translate regulatory workflows into automatable specs.
• Mentor engineers on ML system design and responsible AI practices.

Skills

LLM apps

Prompt engineering

RAG

Agentic AI

Model evaluation

Python

GenAI frameworks

Tools

LangChain

Vector databases

Airflow

Spark

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges". learn more at Coinbase.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Compliance Automation team within the Platform group, you'll build the AI systems that are reimagining how Coinbase executes compliance operations at scale. This team designs and ships Agentic AI solutions that automate compliance processes, from investigation workflows to decision support, replacing manual operations with intelligent, auditable, and measurable automation. You'll own the ML architecture for production compliance agents, driving technical decisions on model selection, grounding, guardrails, and evaluation while partnering with Compliance stakeholders to ensure every automated output meets regulatory standards.

What You'll Do:

• Architect and build production Agentic AI systems for compliance automation, including LLM-powered agents, orchestration pipelines, and decision support workflows that replace manual compliance processes
• Own the ML technical direction for compliance agents, driving model selection, prompt engineering, grounding strategies, and guardrail design that ensure agent outputs are accurate, auditable, and regulatorily defensible
• Design and implement evaluation and measurement frameworks that quantify agent performance, detect hallucinations and drift, and provide the auditability compliance teams and regulators require
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, and Operations stakeholders to translate complex regulatory workflows into automatable technical specifications, identifying which processes are candidates for full automation vs. human-in-the-loop augmentation
• Mentor engineers on ML system design, LLM application patterns, and responsible AI practices, raising the team's technical bar for production AI systems

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years in machine learning and software engineering, with demonstrated experience shipping LLM-based or Agentic AI applications to production
• Deep expertise in LLM application development, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), grounding techniques, hallucination reduction, and agent orchestration frameworks
• Proven track record building evaluation and measurement systems for ML models in production, including monitoring for drift, accuracy degradation, and output quality at scale
• Strong Python proficiency with hands-on experience in GenAI frameworks and ML infrastructure (e.g., LangChain, vector databases, Airflow, Spark, or equivalent orchestration and data processing tools)
• Experience in compliance, regulatory technology, financial crimes, or similarly regulated domains where auditability, explainability, and correctness of automated decisions are critical
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Pay Transparency Notice:

Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025 – $256,500 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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