Senior Engineering Manager, AI Foundations

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, AI Foundations for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $254k-$299k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

AI in this role

Lead the AI Foundations engineering team at Coinbase, scaling LLM gateways, model routing, and agent tooling infrastructure.

llm-gatewaymcp-gateway

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.

AI Foundations builds the shared infrastructure that lets teams across Coinbase use AI securely, reliably, and cost-effectively. Its scope includes the LLM Gateway and model routing, MCP Gateway for agent access to tools, knowledge and context services, evaluation infrastructure, and AI discovery and spend tooling. These building blocks power employee productivity and AI-enabled products without each team rebuilding the same infrastructure.

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What you’ll do:

Lead AI Foundations engineering, with responsibility for hiring, coaching, technical direction, prioritization, and delivery across its shared AI services.
Partner with Product and senior engineers to balance rapid model and agent innovation with reliability, security, developer experience, and cost.
Own engineering-side vendor relationships and operational readiness, and partner with Security, Legal, and Finance on AI governance and spend controls.

Required Skills and Experience:

Own the “Neutral Foundations” pillar of Coinbase’s AI Tooling Strategy; establish a 2027 strategy and roadmap for the team.
Drive operational excellence of the AI primitives/services.
Deliver LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway; pave the road for model routing, evaluations;
Grow the next rung of leadership on AI Foundations.

Pay Transparency Notice: 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):$253,895—$298,700 USD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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How we rate this

Senior Engineering Manager, AI Foundations at Coinbase rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Key facts

Senior Engineering Manager, AI Foundations is an open job at Coinbase.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $254k-$299k a year.
The role is based in Remote - USA and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 13, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Coinbase. Apply on Coinbase

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

LLM GatewayMcp Gateway

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used LLM Gateway hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Mcp Gateway in your day-to-day work.
How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?

Adapt your resume

List these exact terms on your resume: LLM Gateway and Mcp Gateway. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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