# Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO]

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $218k – $257k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** llm applications, Prompt Engineering, Evaluation Frameworks, hallucination guardrails, human-in-the-loop design, multi-agent orchestration, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, regtech, Generative AI
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Builds and drives adoption of AI-powered compliance automation by embedding with regulatory stakeholders, translating complex workflows into engineering solutions, and ensuring outputs are auditable and human-reviewed. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and hands-on LLM application deployment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to identify high-value automation opportunities across transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation.
- Rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase’s existing AI platform as the default foundation.
- Own the Compliance automation roadmap with the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership.
- Translate regulatory workflows—including case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, and policy management—into engineering requirements and communicate engineering constraints to stakeholders.
- Define build-versus-buy strategies for Compliance tooling, including internal builds, partner-team solutions, vendors, and retirements.
- Design automated compliance outputs with traceability, reviewability, auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Drive adoption through brown-bag sessions, prototype walkthroughs, and stakeholder feedback loops.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments; greenfield experience is 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 outputs.
- Ability to work with non-technical domain experts, internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory systems concepts, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling.
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration, including agent handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
- Experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or embedded technical advisory roles, ideally in compliance technology, RegTech, or financial services.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintain human oversight, and deliver business-ready outputs with measurable workflow improvements.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual base salary: **$218,025–$256,500 USD**.
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

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