Staff Machine Learning EngineerActive$46K–$183K

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 design and delivery of production ML systems, applying LLMs, deep: learning, graph neural networks, and classical ML techniques to solve complex customer experience problems.

  • Partner with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to define strategic: roadmaps and translate vision into quarterly execution plans with measurable outcomes.

  • Lead high-impact ML projects end-to-end, from architecture through: production, managing priorities, risks, and dependencies.

  • Build scalable, secure, and reliable ML systems, evaluation pipelines, and: data workflows using high-quality, well-tested Python code.

  • Mentor engineers and establish team-wide standards for design, testing,: observability, and operational excellence.

  • Drive design reviews covering security, responsible AI, model quality, and: architectural integrity, improving reliability, scalability, and latency across the stack.

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience in machine learning and software engineering, with: proven success building, scaling, and maintaining production ML systems, data platforms, or analytical services.
  • Hands-on expertise with one or more of LLMs, deep learning, graph neural: networks, gradient-boosted trees, or regression, combined with strong knowledge of NLP, information retrieval, data mining, or advanced statistics.
  • Strong Python skills with demonstrated ability to write maintainable, highly: tested production code for ML services.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team: or organization, including leading design reviews and influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.