Join Coinbase's AI Platform Team as a Staff Software Engineer to build impactful AI solutions in a high-intensity environment.
AI in the day-to-day
Coinbase is piloting an AI tool for initial screening interviews and an AI interview intelligence platform for summarizing notes.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer on the AI Platform Team at Coinbase will focus on developing and maintaining the infrastructure that supports large language models and AI agents across the organization. Key skills include expertise in API development, microservices, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, particularly in engineering and product. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who thrive in high-impact environments and are passionate about advancing AI technologies. Coinbase emphasizes a culture of innovation and teamwork, with opportunities for in-person collaboration during quarterly sessions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 123 other open roles including Specialist, Market Operations, Analyst, Business Controller, Regional Threat Assessment Manager.
- 1686 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 94 active LLM roles on Joblaze right now.
- 71 active Generative AI roles on Joblaze right now.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform Team role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: MCP, AI/ML, LLM, FinOps, Generative AI, microVM.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform Team role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
AI Platform builds and operates the LLM and agent infrastructure every team at Coinbase builds on, and ships high impact AI agents on top of it. We are the company's single path to LLMs and the substrate for the full agent lifecycle: build, deploy, run, observe, improve.
What you'll do:
- LLM Gateway: one API for 60+ models across all major providers, including self hosted open weight models, with auth, PII redaction, quotas, fallbacks, and cost optimization
- AI Hub: single front door for agents, skills, MCP servers, knowledge bases, models, memories, and keys
- Agent and MCP runtime: microVM sandboxes per agent run, a governed MCP gateway over 125+ servers, cross trust agent identity, tier 1 agents for code, analytics, and exec personas
- Knowledge Bases: connect any data source, auto provision vector and markdown stores, queryable by any agent over MCP
- AI Spend Hub: FinOps for AI, spend attribution and governance across the company
- Evaluation and observability: in house LLM as judge harness with full tracing and eval tooling
- Company wide chat and low code workflow surfaces, thousands of weekly actives each
- Applied AI: we embed with teams to build production agents, build the feedback loops that let subject matter experts refine them, and apply traditional ML including fine tuning where it beats prompting
- Utilizes and builds generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Required Skills and Experience:
- Own multi quarter, high impact initiatives on the platform (gateway, runtime, knowledge, governance) or the applied agents on top. Partner across engineering, security, legal, finance, and product, and work directly with our partners at the frontier labs and major cloud providers.
Public blog posts and talks showcasing the team's work:
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- NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades
- Making Smarter Decisions, Faster with AI at Coinbase
- CB-GPT - The opportunity and the vision for GenAI at Coinbase
- Lessons from launching Enterprise-grade GenAI solutions at Coinbase
- AWS re:Invent 2025 - Scaling support, compliance, & productivity with conversational AI at Coinbase
Job ID#: P76979
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
- Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial.
- Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.
- AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.