Embedded Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO]

As an Embedded Engineer in Compliance within Coinbase's Office of the CTO, you'll identify high-value workflow opportunities across the Compliance organization and rapidly prototype AI-powered solutions to drive measurable adoption of automation tooling. You'll serve as the connective tissue between Compliance stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one. Coinbase's Compliance organization manages regulatory obligations across products, operations, and growth spanning transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam readiness across 60+ global entities.

What you'll do

• Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage, developing ground-level understanding of workflows including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation.
• Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
• Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership, translating complex regulatory workflows such as case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, and policy management into engineering requirements and communicating engineering constraints back to stakeholders.
• Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
• Ensure every automated compliance output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators, with auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.
• Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Compliance teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience 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.
• Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize 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 how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
• Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in compliance-tech, RegTech, or financial services environments.
• The ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

What we offer

• Base salary of $218,025-$256,500 USD annually (varies by location)
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" (remote-first, but not remote-only)

About Coinbase

Coinbase's mission is to increase economic freedom. The company operates across 60+ global entities and manages regulatory obligations spanning transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam readiness. Coinbase is a remote-first company that convenes quarterly for intense in-person working sessions.