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At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for \"good enough,\" you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.\nThe ML & Discovery team in Consumer Growth builds the machine learning systems that help millions of customers discover what to trade and engage with next across crypto, equities, derivatives, and prediction markets. Our models and platforms power personalized feed and asset ranking, intelligent notification orchestration, and LLM-driven market insights across the Coinbase app. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (L5) you will own end-to-end initiatives across the ML lifecycle, from problem formulation, feature engineering, and modeling to production serving and online A/B experimentation. Partnering closely with Product, Data Science, and Engineering in a high-velocity, data-driven environment, you will shape our team's roadmap, raise our engineering quality bar, and use AI-native workflows to deliver measurable business impact.\nWhat you’ll do: \nOwn end-to-end machine learning initiatives from problem formulation and offline evaluation to production deployment and online A/B testing, driving measurable lifts in user engagement, retention, and trading activity.\nBuild and iterate on multi-stage recommendation, retrieval, and contextual bandit models that serve personalized experiences to millions of users across crypto, equities, derivatives, and prediction markets.\nDesign intelligent notification orchestration, candidate ranking, and targeting systems that match users with timely, high-value alerts while avoiding fatigue and improving user experience.\nDevelop production LLM pipelines, grounding workflows, and automated evaluation loops that generate accurate, real-time market insights and personalized financial content.\nArchitect resilient, low-latency model serving services and real-time feature pipelines, eliminating technical debt, leading incident response, and raising our operational reliability bar.\nPartner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to shape the team roadmap, mentor L3-L4 engineers, and build AI-native workflows and automation that multiply team velocity.\nRequired Skills and Experience:\n5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering and software development, with a track record of shipping production ML systems that move customer and business metrics.\nProven track record in one or more relevant domains: recommendation systems, multi-stage ranking and retrieval, contextual bandits, notification targeting, or production LLM applications.\nStrong software engineering and data skills in a backend language like Python or Go, with hands-on proficiency in modern ML and data stacks (such as PyTorch, GBDTs, Spark/Databricks, Ray, Kafka, and/or Tecton).\nDeep practical knowledge of offline model evaluation, training-serving skew mitigation, and design/interpretation of online A/B experiments tied to business metrics.\nDemonstrated ability to drive complex projects end-to-end, make pragmatic architectural trade-offs, and mentor junior engineers.\nUtilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.\n P77866\n#LI-Remote\nPay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). \nAnnual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):\n$213,750—$225,000 USD\nApplication Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.\nEqual Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.\nUS Applicants: ViewEmployee Rights,Know Your Rights, andE-Verify Notice of Participation.\nAccommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. 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