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Coinbase's Legal organization manages corporate governance across 60+ global subsidiaries, public company reporting, institutional client agreements, and product counsel for every product group. This role sits directly inside the Office of the CTO, embedded as a founding engineer within Legal. 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 Legal org. You'll be the connective tissue between Legal stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one.
What you'll do:
- Embed with Legal leadership to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like contract review, regulatory filing drafts, and subsidiary governance.
- Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
- Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of Legal and CCO, translating complex legal workflows — entity management, litigation tracking, product counsel reviews, compliance reporting — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
- Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
- Ensure every automated legal output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible — with privilege boundaries, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.
- Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Legal teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 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.
- Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes legal outputs.
- Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
- Familiarity with legal and compliance systems concepts: contract lifecycle management, regulatory filing workflows, entity governance, and privilege-sensitive data handling
- Does not need to be an attorney, but should be open to learning.
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
- Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in legal-tech, compliance-tech, or RegTech environments.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: 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.
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Skills Required
- 12+ years of backend software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
- Proven experience getting LLM-based applications to production, including evaluation frameworks, grounding, and guardrails against hallucination
- Multi-agent orchestration experience designing and operating systems where multiple AI agents collaborate and escalate to humans
- Exceptional ability to communicate with and learn from non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineered systems
- Platform mindset emphasizing primitives, reusability, and standards rather than point solutions
- Distributed systems fundamentals relevant to document processing, playbook evaluation, routing logic, and audit trails
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguous, greenfield environments and set/achieve ambitious goals
- Demonstrated responsible use of generative AI tools and copilots and experience applying human-in-the-loop practices
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