Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO]

Details

Coinbase's Compliance organization manages regulatory obligations across products, operations, and growth, spanning transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam readiness across more than 60 global entities. This role sits within the Office of the CTO as a founding engineer embedded in Compliance. The engineer will identify high-value workflow opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform, and drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the Compliance organization. The role connects Compliance stakeholders with the engineering teams maintaining Coinbase's AI platform, serving as an advocate, translator, and builder.

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only, company. Employees are expected to meet quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges."

Responsibilities

• Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to identify automation opportunities with significant business leverage, developing an in-depth understanding of workflows such as transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation.
• Rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending new builds.
• Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership.
• Translate complex regulatory workflows, including case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, and policy management, into engineering requirements.
• Clearly communicate engineering constraints to Compliance stakeholders.
• Define the build-versus-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating whether Coinbase should build internally, adopt solutions from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire existing tools.
• Ensure automated compliance outputs are traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators through auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Drive adoption through brown-bag sessions, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops with Compliance teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments. Greenfield experience is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes compliance outputs.
• Ability to work with non-technical domain experts, quickly understand complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory systems concepts, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling.
• Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts, including agent handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
• Experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or an embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in compliance technology, RegTech, or financial services environments.
• Responsible use of generative AI, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Compensation

Annual base salary ranges from $218,025 to $256,500 USD, excluding equity and bonus. Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.

Job ID: #P77745.

Candidates may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.