Staff ML Engineer, Compliance Automation — Remote-First AI

Coinbase, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Compliance Automation team within the Platform group.

You will architect and ship Agentic AI systems that automate complex compliance processes, with a focus on auditable, regulatorily defensible outputs. You will lead ML architecture decisions, ground regulatory workflows into automated solutions, and mentor peers to raise the bar for production AI systems while collaborating with Compliance stakeholders to meet regulatory

Qualifications

• 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).

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

LLM-based applications

Agentic AI

Prompt engineering

Retrieval augmented generation

Model evaluation

Python

GenAI frameworks

Compliance technology

Auditable outputs

Tools

LangChain

Vector databases

Airflow

Spark

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Compliance Automation team within the Platform group.

You will architect and ship Agentic AI systems that automate complex compliance processes, with a focus on auditable, regulatorily defensible outputs. You will lead ML architecture decisions, ground regulatory workflows into automated solutions, and mentor peers to raise the bar for production AI systems while collaborating with Compliance stakeholders to meet regulatory