Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom through innovative technology. The Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform Team will build and operate the LLM and agent infrastructure, enabling high-impact AI agents and supporting the full agent lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- 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
- AI Hub: single front door for agents, skills, MCP servers, knowledge bases, models, memories, and keys
- 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
- Knowledge Bases: connect any data source, auto provision vector and markdown stores, queryable by any agent over MCP
- AI Spend Hub: FinOps for AI, spend attribution and governance across the company
- Evaluation and observability: in house LLM as judge harness with full tracing and eval tooling
- Company wide chat and low code workflow surfaces, thousands of weekly actives each
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Work directly with our partners at the frontier labs and major cloud providers
- Public blog posts and talks showcasing the team's work
- + NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades
- + Making Smarter Decisions, Faster with AI at Coinbase
- + CB-GPT - The opportunity and the vision for GenAI at Coinbase
- + Lessons from launching Enterprise-grade GenAI solutions at Coinbase
- + AWS re:Invent 2025 - Scaling support, compliance, & productivity with conversational AI at Coinbase
Company Overview
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 30 in 2026, 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.