Coinbase
StaffMachineLearningEngineer(Platform-Identity)
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“Staff Machine Learning Engineer(Platform - Identity) at Coinbase. Skills: Machine Learning, Identity Verification, Computer Vision, GNNs. Own ML systems for legitimacy determination. Lead technical strategy for IDV ML”
What You'll Achieve.
Protect integrity of millions of accounts; Detect synthetic-identity rings; Detect coordinated fraud; Detect bot-vs-human; Catch regressions before users
Industry & Context.
Anomaly detection; Fraud detection; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years deploying production ML systems, Technical leadership owning ML architecture, Domain experience in identity verification, biometrics, or account integrity, Deep applied ML in computer vision, biometrics, GNNs, sequence models, or NLP/LLMs, Expert-level Python, Production experience in TensorFlow or PyTorch, Track record translating KYC/AML requirements into ML roadmaps, Communicating trade-offs to stakeholders
Nice to Have
GNNs, Sequence models, NLP/LLMs, Computer vision, Biometrics
What You'll Do.
Own ML systems for legitimacy determination
Lead technical strategy for IDV ML
Own full IDV ML stack
Build identity-graph systems using GNNs
Develop behavioral and device-intelligence models
Drive vendor ML strategy
Benchmark external models
Design dynamic routing logic
Build in-house evaluation layer
Lead and mentor engineers
Partner with ML Platform teams
Align cross-company ML system design
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering with ML Platform teams; Partnering with Risk ML teams
Communication Scope
Communicating trade-offs
Process & Methodology
ML roadmaps
Full Job Description
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Identity Verification As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Identity Verification team within the Platform group, you'll own the ML systems that determine whether a person, document, and capture session are legitimate. Every signup, account recovery, and high-risk action at Coinbase depends on these models. You'll lead the technical strategy for IDV ML end-to-end, from architecture through production enforcement, protecting the integrity of millions of accounts. What you'll do: Own the full IDV ML stack, including document authenticity models, 1:1 and 1:N face-match, liveness detection, presentation-attack detection, and deepfake/injection detection from feature pipeline through threshold tuning and production enforcement. Build identity-graph systems using GNNs that cluster accounts sharing biometric, device, and document signals to detect synthetic-identity rings and coordinated fraud at onboarding. Develop behavioral and device-intelligence models for capture-session anomaly detection, bot-vs-human classification, and device-fingerprint-based risk scoring at real-time latency. Drive vendor ML strategy by benchmarking external models against a Coinbase-owned evaluation set, designing dynamic routing logic across providers and geographies, and building the in-house evaluation layer that catches regressions before they reach users. Lead and m
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