Forward Deployed Engineer (Compliance [Office of the Chief Technology Officer])
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Summary
Embedded founding engineer in Coinbase's Compliance org (Office of the CTO) who identifies high-value compliance workflows, prototypes AI solutions on Coinbase's existing AI platform, and drives adoption of AI tooling across transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and exam readiness.
- Coinbase’s Compliance organization manages regulatory obligations across products, operations, and growth — spanning transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam readiness across 60+ global entities
- This role sits directly inside the Office of the CTO, embedded as a founding engineer within Compliance
- You’ll identify high-value workflow opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase’s existing AI platform, and drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the Compliance org
- You’ll be the connective tissue between Compliance stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase’s AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one
- Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation
- Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase’s existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds
- Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership, translating complex regulatory workflows — case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, policy management — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly
- Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire
- Ensure every automated compliance output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators — with auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns, not afterthoughts
- Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Compliance teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used
- Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes compliance outputs
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience a strong plus
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory systems concepts: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling
- Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in compliance-tech, RegTech, or financial services environments
- Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability