Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform Team

<div class="content-intro"><p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&amp;utm_source=coinbase">Coinbase</a>, 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.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers">learn more about working at Coinbase</a>.</p></div><div class="content-intro"> <p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&amp;utm_source=coinbase">Coinbase</a>, 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.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers">learn more about working at Coinbase</a>.</p> </div> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>AI Hub: single front door for agents, skills, MCP servers, knowledge bases, models, memories, and keys</li> <li>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</li> <li>Knowledge Bases: connect any data source, auto provision vector and markdown stores, queryable by any agent over MCP</li> <li>AI Spend Hub: FinOps for AI, spend attribution and governance across the company</li> <li>Evaluation and observability: in house LLM as judge harness with full tracing and eval tooling</li> <li>Company wide chat and low code workflow surfaces, thousands of weekly actives each</li> <li>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</li> <li>Utilizes and builds generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Skills and Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p>Public blog posts and talks showcasing the team's work:</p> <ul> <li> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.coinbase.com/blog/NodeSmith-AI-Driven-Automation-for-Blockchain-Node-Upgrades">NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.coinbase.com/blog/making-smarter-decisions-faster-with-AI-at-Coinbase">Making Smarter Decisions, Faster with AI at Coinbase</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/cb-gpt-the-opportunity-and-the-vision-for-genAI-at-coinbase">CB-GPT - The opportunity and the vision for GenAI at Coinbase</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/lessons-from-launching-enterprise-grade-genAI-solutions-at-Coinbase">Lessons from launching Enterprise-grade GenAI solutions at Coinbase</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkK6dSsC5fU">AWS re:Invent 2025 - Scaling support, compliance, &amp; productivity with conversational AI at Coinbase</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Job ID#: P76979</p><div class="content-conclusion"><ul> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><strong><em>Application Limit: </em></strong>Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.</li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer: </strong>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.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>US Applicants: </strong>View<a href="https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf"> Employee Rights</a>,<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf"> Know Your Rights</a>, and<a href="https://static-assets.coinbase.com/e-verify.pdf"> E-Verify</a> Notice of Participation.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Accommodations: </strong>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.&nbsp;Need screen reading technology?<a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/screen-reader/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn"> Click here</a> to download a free compatible screen reader and view the<a href="http://www.chromevox.com/tutorial/"><strong> </strong>tutorial</a>.</em></span></li> <li style="font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>Data Privacy &amp; Arbitration: </strong>By submitting your application, you agree to our<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/legal/applicant_privacy_notice"> Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. 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