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
Own the architecture and delivery of core platform systems including the LLM: Gateway (60+ models, auth, PII redaction, fallbacks, cost optimization), AI Hub, and agent runtime with microVM sandboxes and governed MCP gateway
Drive the design and implementation of Knowledge Base infrastructure,: connecting data sources to auto-provisioned vector and markdown stores queryable by any agent
Lead AI FinOps capabilities including spend attribution, governance, and cost: optimization across all AI workloads company-wide
Partner across engineering, security, legal, finance, product, and external: partners at frontier labs and major cloud providers to ship high-impact platform capabilities
Build evaluation and observability tooling including LLM-as-judge harnesses,: full tracing, and feedback loops that let subject matter experts refine production agents
Shape applied AI strategy by embedding with teams to build production agents,: applying fine-tuning and traditional ML where it outperforms prompting
What they're looking for
- + years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise: building ML/AI infrastructure, LLM systems, or distributed platform services at scale
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end, from: technical design through production operation, with measurable platform-wide impact
- Deep expertise in LLM orchestration patterns, agent frameworks, vector: databases, and model serving infrastructure across multiple providers
- Proven track record of cross-functional partnership with security, legal, and: product teams to ship governed, production-grade AI systems
