Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

We are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead one of our teams within the Platform Product Group, Machine Learning Systems and Services

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)

Lead Machine Learning teams, such as the Risk Team.

Guide the output of a team of 25+ ML engineers and work with product partners to identify and solve new use cases for ML on blockchain.

Collaborate with scientists, engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.

Collaborate with Product and Engineering to break down complex projects into smaller pieces and iterate on their design and implementation.

Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and chart a fulfilling career path.

Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions.

Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Coinbase culture and product.

Contribute to owning and delivering processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.

What We Look For In You (ie. Job Requirements)

PhD (preferred) or MS in Computer Science or other Engineering discipline

10+ years of working experience in machine learning and software engineering

At least 5 years of ML/engineering management experience, with ideally 2 years of experience managing through others.

Experience in leading multiple ML teams

Experience in interfacing with partner orgs, and building ML strategy in collaboration with Product Manager partners. Hence strong communication skills (both verbal and written) is necessary.

Experience in latest ML techniques (e.g. supervised and unsupervised learning, deep neural nets, reinforcement learning, transformers)

Experience in coding on ML platforms (e.g. SKLearn, XGBoost, Tensorflow, pytorch)

Ability to hire top performing engineering talent

You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.

Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in FinTech

Previous experience with Fraud/Risk/Compliance problems

Job #: GPEM07US

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience

Senior Engineering Manager (Platform - Machine Learning Systems & Services)

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