internship📂 Human Resources🔀 Hybrid🏭 Finance & Banking
✨ Job Highlights
★Pay: $40 an hour
★Hybrid: New York
★Internship role in human resources
★Education: Master's degree
★Apply directly on Coinbase's careers site
★Posted September 9, 2026
Full Job Description
Coinbase is recruiting a Credit Risk Intern to join the team in New York. It is an internship with a hybrid schedule. Pay for this role is set at $40 an hour, according to the posting.
Coinbase describes the job as follows.
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.
This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.
Join the Credit Risk team within the Financial & Operational Risk subteam of Finance. You'll support the underwriting, monitoring, and analysis of counterparty and asset-level credit risk across Coinbase's global institutional client base. Working alongside risk professionals and product teams, you'll gain hands-on experience evaluating complex exposures in digital asset lending and trading, and your work will directly inform credit decisions and risk reporting for leadership.
What you'll do
Underwrite institutional counterparties, including hedge funds, asset managers, corporates, market makers, and banking and payment providers, recommending internal credit ratings and risk-based limits with written substantiation.
Monitor trading and bank partner exposures on an ongoing basis, conducting periodic portfolio reviews and flagging concentration risks or emerging trends to leadership.
Analyze asset volatility and liquidity risks on a per-asset and portfolio basis to support lending and trading product decisions.
Collaborate with product, sales, operations, and legal teams to resolve client or product challenges and deliver risk-informed solutions.
Research industry trends, regulatory developments, and crypto market dynamics to contribute to the team's thought leadership and continuous improvement.
Required Skills and Experience
Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline with an expected graduation date of December 2027 or later.
Demonstrated interest in financial and capital markets, with coursework or projects involving credit analysis, financial statement interpretation, or portfolio risk concepts.
Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets for quantitative analysis, including modeling, scenario analysis, or data summarization.
Familiarity with the crypto economy or digital assets, or a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new financial product domains.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Position ID: P78077
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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target hourly rate for this position can range as detailed below.
Hourly Rate: $40 to $40 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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What is the salary for the Credit Risk Intern role at Coinbase?
Coinbase advertises $40 an hour for this role.
Is this a remote, hybrid or office job?
It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in New York.
What experience do I need for this Credit Risk Intern job?
The posting mentions a master's degree or equivalent and skills such as Excel. Read the full description above for the complete list.
How do I apply?
Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Coinbase's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.
When was this job posted?
Coinbase published the role on September 9, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.
Source: Coinbase careers page (www.coinbase.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.
Required Skills
Excel
🏢 About Coinbase
Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform - and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone…
