Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Published on October 27, 2026
Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.
To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
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.
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, CX Intelligence
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.
- 8+ 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.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job #: P77568
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