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

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Engineering, Data Processing, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, AI Platforms
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/D3680B3EABCC4CA5BC8618745DA77D99/job/

## 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-stakes legal outputs.
 * Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
 * Familiarity with legal and compliance systems concepts: contract lifecycle management, regulatory filing workflows, entity governance, and privilege-sensitive data handling
 * Does not need to be an attorney, but should be open to learning.
 * Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
 * Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in legal-tech, compliance-tech, or RegTech environments.
 * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

*Pay 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)).

## Description

* Embed with Legal leadership to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage - developing ground-level understanding of workflows like contract review, regulatory filing drafts, and subsidiary governance.
 * Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
 * Own the Legal automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of Legal and CCO, translating complex legal workflows - entity management, litigation tracking, product counsel reviews, compliance reporting - into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
 * Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Legal tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
 * Ensure every automated legal output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible - with privilege boundaries, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.
 * Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Legal teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.


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