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

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Saint Paul, MN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Netsuite, Anaplan, Software Engineering, Prompt Engineering, Hallucination Detection, Generative AI, AI Platforms, Human in the Loop, Workday
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3468317130&tx=YT404CYZ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## 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 financial outputs.
 * Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
 * Familiarity with financial systems concepts: ERP data flows (NetSuite, Workday, Anaplan), reconciliation logic, trial balances, and SOX-controlled environments
 * Does not need to be a CPA, 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 fintech, finance-tech, or enterprise automation environments.
 * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Description

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.