The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Embed with Legal leadership to surface the automation opportunities with the: greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like contract review, regulatory filing drafts, and subsidiary governance.
Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as: the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of Legal and CCO,: translating complex legal workflows — entity management, litigation tracking, product counsel reviews, compliance reporting — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling, evaluating what Coinbase: should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
Ensure every automated legal output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible: — with privilege boundaries, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.
Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops: that bring Legal teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.
What they're looking for
- + 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 legal outputs.
- Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly: internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
- Familiarity with legal and compliance systems concepts: contract lifecycle: management, regulatory filing workflows, entity governance, and privilege-sensitive data handling Does not need to be an attorney, but should be open to learning.
