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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO] - **Company:** Coinbase, Inc. - **Location:** Albany, NY, 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/462B23044D59483AA99EF19D34852B63/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 compliance outputs. * Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements. * Familiarity with compliance and regulatory systems concepts: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling. * 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 compliance-tech, RegTech, or financial services environments. * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. ## Description * Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage - developing ground-level understanding of workflows like transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation. * Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds. * Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with the Chief Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership, translating complex regulatory workflows - case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, policy management - into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly. * Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire. * Ensure every automated compliance output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to regulators - with auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns, not afterthoughts. * Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Compliance teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used. ## Related Videos - [This App Reached 10,000 Users in One Week. 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