Forward Deployed Engineer, Finance [Office of the CTO]

The role

You will embed with FP&A and Treasury leadership to identify automation opportunities and prototype solutions using Coinbase's AI platform. You will act as a bridge between Finance stakeholders and engineering teams to drive adoption of AI tooling.

What you will do

• Embed with FP&A and Treasury leadership to surface automation opportunities
• Prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform
• Own the Finance automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of FP&A & Treasury
• Translate financial workflows into engineering requirements and constraints
• Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Finance tooling
• Ensure automated financial outputs are traceable, reviewable, and defensible to auditors
• Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications
• Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design
• Ability to embed with non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineering requirements
• Familiarity with financial systems concepts including ERP data flows, reconciliation logic, trial balances, and SOX-controlled environments
• Open to learning CPA concepts
• Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts
• Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly

Nice to have

• greenfield experience

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)
• equity
• bonus eligibility

Before you apply

• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period

About the company

Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom.