Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location: New York

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Full-time### Build the AI workforce that finance can actually trust.##### ##### We are closing the gap between what AI promises and what regulated institutions can responsibly deploy. If you##### fall in love with hard problems — not easy answers — this is where your work matters.
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* The Role:

** We're looking for
** AI Engineers
** who can help us build and scale intelligent agents from the ground up. You’ll join our team as one of our earliest hires. You'll work among a team if high caliber engineers and help some of the largest customers in Private Equity, Private Credit and Insurance in solving complex engineering challenges. You will own key technical decisions from day one.
** You’ll be**●       
** Designing and Deploying LLM-Powered Agents
** Build agentic systems using LLMs and RAG to automate complex credit workflows. This includes prompt design, tool use, orchestration logic, and system evaluation.●       
** Working Directly with Customers
** Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders at major credit firms to understand workflow pain points and co-develop AI solutions that directly tie to ROI.●       
** Owning Production Infrastructure
** Architect and maintain backend systems and APIs that connect to data sources and customer platforms. Ensure high availability, performance, and observability.●       
** Evaluating and Optimizing Systems
** Balance accuracy, latency, reliability, cost, and explainability in our agentic systems. Lead rigorous experimentation and improvement cycles.●       
** Contributing to Core Platform Design
** Define technical architecture, build reusable infrastructure for agent deployment, and shape the foundation of Obin’s AI engineering best practices.●       
** Setting Culture and Standards
** Help define Obin’s engineering culture, hiring bar, and long-term technical roadmap

We believe great AI Engineers come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence.
** Experience

Required:

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* ● 5–10+ years of software engineering experience
● Hands-on experience building LLM-based agents and/or RAG systems in production
● Logging, evaluating, optimizing AI applications
● Proficiency in Python and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
● Experience with cloud infra (preferably GCP) and APIs
● Hunger to move fast, own outcomes, and build something enduring
● Strong intuition around system architecture, performance, and scaling
● Clear communication, especially in ambiguous, high-stakes problem spaces
** Bonus:*
* ● Experience with human-in-the-loop systems, feedback loops, and long-horizon agentic task execution
● Background in financial systems, risk modeling, or decision automation
● Familiarity with PydanticAI, Llama Index, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, or similar frameworks
● You’ve built or contributed to an internal AI platform or reusable LLM tooling

In addition to the Base salary, this position is also eligible for a annual performance bonus and comprehensive benefits.$170,000 - $230,000  depending upon experience
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* About Us:

** Obin AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence company building the next generation of agentic intelligence for financial services. The company develops a production-ready AI workforce that runs defined workflows end-to-end inside a firm’s controls and audit boundaries, encoding institution-specific logic and producing traceable, inspectable outputs. Because of its open, no-lock-in architecture and ability to resolve even nuanced edge cases, Obin AI is trusted by leading global financial institutions representing over $1 trillion in assets under management.

Obin AI enables these organizations to standardize and accelerate their core workflows — continuous monitoring, scalable underwriting, and earlier risk detection — without scaling teams or compromising governance. Founded by seasoned leaders from Google AI, JPMorgan and Silver Lake, Obin AI is reimagining how financial firms operate — deploying AI workers directly within live workflows to…