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San Francisco, CA

User Researcher Intern

Internship
Finance
Product
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Coinbase

Cryptocurrency exchange and products
73.1
Palpable Score
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This is a 12-week internship during summer 2026.

Coinbase is seeking interns to join our User Research team to understand user needs for existing products like Coinbase Cloud and tools for developers. You will contribute to unique, large scale, highly complex product problems. You will help researchers, designers, and product managers craft thoughtful experiences to help enable all people to engage with the crypto economy. You don’t need to be an expert on cryptocurrency to join us—we welcome folks at many different moments in their cryptocurrency journey. We only ask that you have a basic knowledge of cryptocurrency and Coinbase’s role in it, and an interest in learning more.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

Nice to haves:

Application Requirements:

  1. Final report from a past research project: This can be a school, bootcamp, or consulting/extracurricular project. We’re interested to see how you communicate your findings, as well as how the research goals influenced your choices with methodology, execution, and recommendations. Please upload as a document below
  2. Resume: Include previous work and/or educational experiences

About the company

Coinbase

Company overview
Coinbase runs a crypto platform where individuals and institutions can buy, sell, hold, and use digital assets. Coinbase also builds products for developers and onchain apps, including Base (an Ethereum Layer 2) and tooling for payments, wallets, and onramp services. Coinbase positions the business around increasing economic freedom and building an open financial system. Coinbase operates globally across consumer, institutional, and developer markets, with a mix of regulated exchange and infrastructure products.

Locations and presence

Coinbase is remote-first, with teams coming together for regular in-person sessions, and many roles labeled remote by country. Coinbase also maintains site-based roles and hubs, including customer support operations in Manila and a growing office presence in Charlotte alongside other US locations.

Palpable Score

73.1
/ 100
Coinbase is a good early-career target for candidates who want real responsibility early, because Coinbase runs a structured 12-week internship program with mentors, workshops, stipends, and a stated goal of converting top performers into full-time roles. The score is held back by outcome volatility and sustainability signals: public employee-review data shows mixed work-life balance and only mid-range recommendation rates, and the company has a visible history of workforce reductions in prior down-cycles.
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