Forward Deployed Engineer, Finance [Office of the CTO]

Overview

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded within Coinbase Finance (Office of the CTO), focused on applying AI to FP&A and Treasury workflows.

What you'll do

• Identify finance automation opportunities with business leverage in FP&A and Treasury workflows.
• Rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation.
• Translate financial workflows (e.g., budgeting cycles, GL reconciliation, multi-entity consolidation, regulatory filing drafts) into engineering requirements and constraints.
• Own a Finance automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of FP&A & Treasury.
• Define build-vs-buy strategy for Finance tooling (build, adopt, procure, or retire).
• Design automated financial outputs to be traceable, reviewable, and defensible for auditors with controls.
• Drive adoption via brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks.
• Human-in-the-loop design experience for high-stakes financial outputs.
• Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts and translate workflows into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with financial systems concepts including ERP data flows (NetSuite, Workday, Anaplan), reconciliation logic, trial balances, and SOX-controlled environments.
• Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts for handoffs, escalation, and auditability.

Details

• Location: Remote in USA.