Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Senior ML Engineer building recommendation, ranking, notification, and LLM systems for Coinbase’s crypto and financial markets platform. Owning production ML initiatives that improve customer engagement and trading activity.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end machine learning initiatives from problem formulation and offline evaluation through production deployment and online A/B testing
- Build and iterate on recommendation, retrieval, and contextual bandit models for personalized experiences across crypto, equities, derivatives, and prediction markets
- Design notification orchestration, candidate ranking, and targeting systems
- Develop production LLM pipelines, grounding workflows, and automated evaluation loops for market insights and personalized financial content
- Architect resilient, low-latency model-serving services and real-time feature pipelines
- Eliminate technical debt, lead incident response, and improve operational reliability
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape the roadmap
- Mentor L3-L4 engineers and build AI-native workflows and automation
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering and software development
- Track record of shipping production ML systems that move customer and business metrics
- Experience in recommendation systems, multi-stage ranking and retrieval, contextual bandits, notification targeting, or production LLM applications
- Strong software engineering and data skills in Python or Go
- Hands-on proficiency with PyTorch, GBDTs, Spark/Databricks, Ray, Kafka, and/or Tecton
- Practical knowledge of offline model evaluation, training-serving skew mitigation, and online A/B experiments tied to business metrics
- Ability to drive complex projects end-to-end and make pragmatic architectural trade-offs
- Ability to mentor junior engineers
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
- Must be based in the USA; the posting also lists Remote - Canada as an office eligibility option
Benefits:
- Equity eligibility
- Bonus eligibility
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- Equal opportunity employment protections













