Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company dedicated to increasing economic freedom. They are hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of a unified orchestration layer for their conversational ecosystem, enhancing customer interactions through advanced AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy the orchestration layer that manages state transitions, context sharing, and intent routing across vendor and internal LLM frameworks in a distributed conversational environment
- Build production-grade Python services that bridge advanced ML/AI research with reliable, measurable customer-facing products
- Lead end-to-end project execution for complex ML initiatives, managing priorities, technical trade-offs, and cross-functional dependencies from design through delivery
- Establish best practices for system design, coding standards, and AI/ML development workflows across the team
- Mentor engineers on architectural integrity and modern AI/ML patterns, raising the technical bar for the broader team
- Conduct design reviews to ensure every feature meets Coinbase's standards for security, scalability, and performance
Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience in machine learning and software engineering, with a track record of shipping production-grade ML services at scale
- Hands-on expertise building with modern AI architectures (LLMs, deep learning) and the generative AI ecosystem, including frameworks such as LangGraph, LangSmith, Google ADK, Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock
- Deep proficiency in Python with demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, highly-tested production code
- Specialized knowledge in at least one domain: NLP, information retrieval, computer vision, or advanced statistical modeling
- Proven ability to write technical design documents and present ML system architectures to cross-functional stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
Benefits
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
- Remote-first, but not remote-only company
- Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”
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