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 full IDV ML stack, including document authenticity models, 1:1 and: 1:N face-match, liveness detection, presentation-attack detection, and deepfake/injection detection from feature pipeline through threshold tuning and production enforcement.
Build identity-graph systems using GNNs that cluster accounts sharing: biometric, device, and document signals to detect synthetic-identity rings and coordinated fraud at onboarding.
Develop behavioral and device-intelligence models for capture-session anomaly: detection, bot-vs-human classification, and device-fingerprint-based risk scoring at real-time latency.
Drive vendor ML strategy by benchmarking external models against a: Coinbase-owned evaluation set, designing dynamic routing logic across providers and geographies, and building the in-house evaluation layer that catches regressions before they reach users.
Lead and mentor senior and mid-level engineers in the pod while partnering: with ML Platform and Risk ML teams to align cross-company ML system design.
+ years deploying production ML systems at scale, with proven technical: leadership owning cross-team ML architecture from design through production.
What they're looking for
- Domain experience in identity verification, biometrics, or account integrity: with deep applied ML in at least two of: computer vision/biometrics, GNNs, sequence models, or NLP/LLMs.
- Expert-level Python with production experience in TensorFlow or PyTorch,: including model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure.
- Track record translating KYC/AML requirements and fraud trends into ML: roadmaps and communicating trade-offs to Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver: business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
