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

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Topeka, KS, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, AI Platforms
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/13633990

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience 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-stake

## Description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? Athttps://www.coinbase.com/careers.

Coinbase's FP&A & Treasury organization manages financial planning and analysis across 60+ global subsidiaries, period-end close, GL reconciliation, intercompany eliminations, regulatory filings, budgeting, forecasting, and treasury operations. This role sits directly inside the Office of the CTO, embedded as a founding engineer within Finance. You'll identify high-value workflow opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform, and drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the FP&A & Treasury org. You'll be the connective tissue between Finance stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one.

What you'll do:

 * Embed with FP&A and Treasury leadership to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage - developing ground-level understanding of workflows like period-end close, variance analysis, and liquidity stress-testing before writing a single line of code.

 * Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.

 * Own the Finance automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of FP&A & Treasury, translating complex financial workflows - budgeting cycles, GL reconciliation, multi-entity consolidation, regulatory filing drafts - into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.

 * Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Finance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.

 * Ensure every automated financial output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to auditors - with SOX compliance, segregation of duties, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.

 * Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring FP&A and Treasury teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.


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