Coinbase is seeking to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. The Risk AI/ML team has a critical mission to foster business growth by effectively managing the financial threats impacting the business and its users, by building scalable and intelligent systems to detect and prevent fraud, scams, and account takeovers at scale.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering and/or AI/ML, including significant experience deploying AI/ML systems into production.
- Expertise in one or more areas of applied AI/ML (e.g., Risk ML, Gradient Boosting trees, large-scale deep learning, NLP/LLMs, computer vision, recommender systems, reinforcement learning, GNNs).
- Strong coding skills (e.g., Python) with deep experience in AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc).
- Experience building backend systems at scale with a focus on data processing, AI/ML, or analytics.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives and deliver impactful AI/ML solutions at scale.
- Knowledge of modern data and AI/ML infrastructure (e.g., Apache Airflow, Spark, Flink, Kafka/Kinesis, Snowflake, Hadoop, Hive).
- Familiarity with MLOps best practices, including monitoring, retraining, and continuous improvement of production models.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design and deployment of AI/ML models and systems that scale to millions of users.
- Investigate and harness cutting-edge methodologies (e.g., large-scale deep learning, LLMs, GNNs, reinforcement learning) to address diverse challenges like fraud detection, recommender systems, feed ranking, and risk assessment.
- Architect and build production-grade AI/ML models & pipelines, that enable low-latency, high-reliability predictions.
- Develop and deploy robust, low-maintenance applied AI/ML solutions
- Deliver high-quality, measurable results while managing ambiguity, prioritizing technical debt, and ensuring systems evolve with business growth.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship, elevating engineering excellence across the organization.
- Help democratize access to AI/ML by creating onboarding codelabs, tools, and infrastructure to foster a culture of widespread AI/ML across the team, org and Coinbase.
Other
- A passion for building an open financial system that connects the world and a strong desire to protect good users from bad actors.
- You are motivated by the challenges of fighting fraud, detecting scams, preventing account takeovers, and generally thwarting "baddies."
- You exhibit our core cultural values: add positive energy, communicate clearly, be curious, and be a builder.
- Solid communication skills to collaborate with and influence stakeholders with various technical and non-technical backgrounds.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience influencing technical direction across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
