Summary

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Coinbase, you will play a pivotal role in constructing essential infrastructure for the open financial system. This involves harnessing diverse and extensive data sources, including the blockchain, to grant millions of individuals access to cryptocurrency while simultaneously identifying and thwarting malicious entities. Your impact extends beyond safeguarding Coinbase, as you'll have the opportunity to employ machine learning to enhance the overall user experience. This includes imbuing intelligence into recommendations, risk assessment, chatbots, and various other aspects, making our product not only secure but also exceptionally user-friendly.

The ML team at Coinbase is a part of our Platform Product Group. The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience. 

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

1. Investigate and harness cutting-edge machine learning methodologies, including deep learning, large language models (LLMs), and graph neural networks, to address diverse challenges throughout the company. These challenges encompass areas such as fraud detection, feed ranking, recommendation systems, targeting, chatbots, and blockchain mining.
2. Develop and deploy robust, low-maintenance applied machine learning solutions in a production environment.
3. Create onboarding codelabs, tools, and infrastructure to democratize access to machine learning resources across Coinbase, fostering a culture of widespread ML utilization.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

1. Experience with at least one ML model: LLMs, GNN, Deep Learning, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting trees, etc. 
2. Working knowledge in one or more of the following: data mining, information retrieval, advanced statistics or natural language processing, computer vision.
3. Exhibit our core cultural values: add positive energy, communicate clearly, be curious, and be a builder.

Nice to haves:

1. PhD degree strongly preferred with 3+ years of relevant experience
2. Or MS degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, or related technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience
3. Experience with Python.
4. Experience with data analysis and visualization.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range:

$180,265—$212,000 USD

Skills

• Development
• Machine Learning
• Python