Staff Machine Learning Risk Analyst, Coinbase
$194-228.2k
Digital currency exchange
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Digital currency exchange
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$194-228.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning analytics, data science, or a related technical field, with meaningful experience applied to risk, fraud, or payments problems
- Practitioner-level proficiency in Spark, Python, and big data ML as a core working stack, with demonstrated ability to operate beyond SQL and rule-based approaches
- Proven experience in feature engineering for ML models, including identifying signals, building pipelines, and validating feature quality at scale
- Working knowledge of the ML infrastructure landscape evolution, from Hadoop-era big data through modern feature stores (e.g., Tecton, Feast), with the ability to apply that context to close infrastructure gaps
- Demonstrated ability to optimize ML systems for sensitivity and accuracy on high-stakes, low-volume fraud traffic rather than broad-coverage, high-volume use cases
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
What the job involves
- As a Staff ML Risk Analyst on the Growth & Risk team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll sit at the intersection of fraud intelligence and machine learning infrastructure, defining how we identify, model, and respond to sophisticated fraud at scale
- Fraud at Coinbase is fast-evolving, with professional, adaptive counterparties that outpace any human response team
- You'll build and shape the ML-powered, automated solutions that detect and prevent account takeover (ATO) and scam activity before it reaches our users, setting the technical direction for the ML Analytics function within Growth & Risk
- Define the ML data and feature strategy for fraud detection, determining what data needs to enter our systems so models can take intelligent, high-accuracy action on the small fraction of traffic where intervention matters most
- Own the end-to-end feature engineering pipeline, identifying, building, validating, and promoting features that drive measurable improvements in ATO and scam ML performance
- Diagnose gaps between current tooling infrastructure and the solutions needed, driving the roadmap to close them by applying deep knowledge of how the ML industry has evolved architecturally
- Partner with Machine Learning Engineers to translate analytical insights into production-ready ML systems, ensuring models are instrumented, monitored, and continuously improved
- Mentor junior team members across the ML Analytics function, defining the technical approach and translating direction into execution
- Partner cross-functionally with Product Managers and Risk Analysts to surface fraud signals and translate ML findings into business-impacting decisions
Our take
Coinbase has built a reputation as one of the most accessible entry points into the world of cryptocurrency. With features like crypto wallets, direct bank account linking, and merchant payment tools, it's helping bring crypto into the mainstream. But the company isn't just relying on its early success, it's evolving fast to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market.
For example, its doubled down on institutional clients, now serving as the custodian for the majority of approved Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. Its Prime platform also offers a full suite of services for hedge funds, asset managers, and financial institutions. As demand for regulated crypto products rise globally (particularly in Asia), Coinbase is ready to expand.
Its also making moves to engage with younger audiences, by partnering with Riot Games to sponsor global eSports events for League of Legends and Valorant. This partnership highlights Coinbase's strategy to integrate Web 3.0 technologies into mainstream entertainment, aiming to bridge the gap between gaming and cryptocurrency for a new generation of users.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2017
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $528.5m
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
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