Coinbase
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Compliance Automation (Platform)
$218K–$256K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 8+ years in machine learning and software engineering.
About the job
Builds production agentic AI systems that automate Coinbase compliance operations and provide auditable decision support.
What you'll do
- Architect and build LLM-powered compliance agents, orchestration pipelines, and decision-support workflows.
- Set ML technical direction and create evaluation, monitoring, grounding, and guardrail systems for compliance agents.
- Translate regulatory workflows with Compliance, Legal, and Operations stakeholders; mentor engineers in ML system design and responsible AI.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in machine learning and software engineering, including production LLM-based or Agentic AI applications.
- Deep expertise in LLM application development, including prompt engineering, RAG, grounding, hallucination reduction, and agent orchestration.
- Track record building production ML evaluation and measurement systems, including monitoring for drift, accuracy degradation, and output quality.
- Strong Python proficiency and experience with GenAI frameworks and ML infrastructure; experience in compliance, regulatory technology, financial crimes, or similarly regulated domains.
Pay
$218,025 — $256,500 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Python, LangChain, vector databases, Airflow, Spark
AI focus
Develops and operates agentic AI for compliance automation, including LLM agents, grounding, guardrails, evaluation, hallucination and drift monitoring, and human-in-the-loop decision support.
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