Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO]

As a Forward Deployed Engineer in Compliance at Coinbase, you'll embed directly within the Compliance organization to identify high-value automation opportunities and rapidly prototype AI-driven solutions. Sitting in the Office of the CTO, you'll be the connective tissue between Compliance stakeholders and the engineering teams maintaining Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder to drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the Compliance organization.

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 like 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 constraints.
• 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 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: 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.
• 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

• Annual base salary of $218,025–$256,500 USD (varies by location), plus potential equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Remote-first work model with quarterly in-person "surges" for collaborative sessions.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The 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.