About the company
Coinbase is a remote-first company on a mission to increase economic freedom. The environment is intense and high-bar, with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of production ML systems, applying LLMs, deep learning, graph neural networks, and classical ML techniques to solve complex customer experience problems.
- Partner with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and translate vision into quarterly execution plans with measurable outcomes.
- Lead high-impact ML projects end-to-end, from architecture through production, managing priorities, risks, and dependencies.
- Build scalable, secure, and reliable ML systems, evaluation pipelines, and data workflows using high-quality, well-tested Python code.
- Mentor engineers and establish team-wide standards for design, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- Drive design reviews covering security, responsible AI, model quality, and architectural integrity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in machine learning and software engineering, with proven success building, scaling, and maintaining production ML systems, data platforms, or analytical services.
- Hands-on expertise with one or more of LLMs, deep learning, graph neural networks, gradient-boosted trees, or regression, combined with strong knowledge of NLP, information retrieval, data mining, or advanced statistics.
- Strong Python skills with demonstrated ability to write maintainable, highly tested production code for ML services.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team or organization.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Conditions
- Remote-first, but not remote-only; quarterly in-person "surges."
- Annual base salary range: $218,025 – $256,500 USD (excluding equity and bonus).
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.