Staff ML Risk Analytics

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As a Staff Machine Learning Analytics professional on the Growth & Risk team, you will 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 a fast-evolving problem: our counterparties are professional, adaptive, and operate faster than any human response team can. That's why we build ML-powered, automated solutions. Your work will directly determine how well our systems can detect and prevent account takeover (ATO) and scam activity before it reaches our users.

This is not a traditional risk analyst role. We are not looking for rule-writers. We are looking for someone who understands how the ML industry has evolved and can apply that knowledge to hard, high-stakes fraud problems.

What You’ll Be Doing

Define the ML data and feature strategy for fraud detection, determining what data needs to enter our systems so our models can take intelligent, high-accuracy action on a 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, and drive the roadmap to close them leveraging your understanding of how the industry has evolved to make the right architectural calls.

Partner with Machine Learning Engineers to translate analytical insights into production-ready ML systems, ensuring models are instrumented, monitored, and continuously improved.

Set technical direction for the ML Analytics function within Growth & Risk, mentoring junior team members who need a senior practitioner to define the approach and translate direction into execution.

Partner cross-functionally with Product Managers and Risk analysts to surface fraud signals and translate ML findings into business-impacting decisions.

Serve as the team's institutional knowledge resource on ML industry evolution — helping the organization understand why certain solutions work, what historical architectural decisions mean for current tooling, and where the industry is headed next.

What We Look For In You

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.

Deep, practitioner-level expertise in Spark, Python, and big data ML this is the core stack. SQL and rule-writing are adjacent skills; they are not what this role is about.

Proven experience in feature engineering for ML models, including identifying the right signals, building pipelines, and validating feature quality at scale.

Holistic understanding of how the ML industry has evolved over the past decade  from Hadoop-era big data to modern feature stores like Tecton and the ability to apply that knowledge to close infrastructure gaps.

A curated, high-precision approach to ML problems: you understand that in fraud and risk, you are optimizing for sensitivity and accuracy on a small fraction of high-stakes traffic  not the broad-coverage, high-volume approach used in growth or ads.

Background in risk or payments ML is strongly preferred candidates who have operated in this domain understand the problem framing intuitively.

A passion for fighting fraud and abuse, and the curiosity to self-drive investigations, identify patterns, and find the root cause

Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice To Haves

Experience With Modern Ml Feature Stores (tecton, Feast, Or Equivalent).

Prior work at FinTech companies, payments platforms, or risk solution vendors

Familiarity with crypto-specific fraud vectors including ATO, scam flows, and onchain transaction patterns.

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Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual Base Salary Range (excluding Equity And Bonus)

$193,970

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$228,200 USD

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Candidates may submit a maximum of 4 applications per 30-day period.

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Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation.  Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.