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title: 'Agentic AI Engineer at Obin AI'
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# Agentic AI Engineer at Obin AI

- **Company:** Obin AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $190k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDqlWuYrE3yzgNntxOCrDChU

## Job description

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 directly with the founders (ex-Google) and 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:

●       5+ years of software engineering experience ●       1+ years of 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, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, or similar frameworks ●       You’ve built or contributed to an internal AI platform or reusable LLM tooling

## About Obin AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Obin AI builds production-grade AI agents that automate complex workflows for regulated financial institutions, enabling them to scale capacity without adding headcount.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Apoorv Saxena (CEO, Co-founder) and Dr. Valliappa "Lak" Lakshmanan (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI for financial services (asset management, wealth management, insurance, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, origination, claims)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large financial institutions (top-tier banks, asset managers, insurers)
- **Mission**: "Expand institutional capacity without expanding headcount, enabling financial institutions to deploy capital faster, price risk more precisely, and operate with real-time insight that was previously impossible." [obin.ai/about](https://www.obin.ai/about)

## Products & Services
- **Obin Agentic Platform**: End-to-end platform to reimagine, build, and manage production-grade AI agents inside a client’s own environment. Modular, governed, and composable.
- **Robin Agents**: Regulated AI agents trained on domain expertise to execute complex financial workflows (underwriting, due diligence, IC memo creation, wealth advisor enablement, claims processing) with full traceability and auditability.
- **Obin Financial Agent for Gemini Enterprise**: A pre-built agent available on Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, already in production at a major U.S. life insurer and a private credit fund. [obin.ai/post](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (seed stage)
- **Total Funding**: Seed round led by Motive Partners (amount undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Motive Partners (lead), angel advisors Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; partner with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Engagements with institutions managing over $1 trillion in assets
  - Deployments move from pilot to production in weeks
  - 18 employees (as of 2025) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)
  - Already live in top‑three global financial institutions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Finance‑first engineering**: Built by alumni of JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Silver Lake, Google – deep domain expertise in both AI and regulated finance.
- **Governance by design**: Every agent output is traceable, auditable, and reversible; role‑based permissions and built‑in fail‑safes satisfy compliance teams.
- **Open architecture**: Transparent, modular design that runs inside the client’s environment – client owns data, models, and IP.
- **Edge‑case mastery**: Agents are trained on the exceptions and nuance that define financial workflows, not just routine 80% tasks.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen deployments with existing clients and expand to the next tier of global financial institutions.
- Continue to build the platform’s compounding learning effect – when one institution solves a workflow, the architecture improves for all.
- Scale the agentic workforce across asset management, wealth management, and insurance verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early‑stage startup (seed) tackling hard, production‑grade AI problems for high‑stakes environments. Emphasis on judgment, governance, and speed.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in the New York office. [obin.ai/careers](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
- **Team**: Advised by Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; founded by former Google AI and JPMorgan executives.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the engineering culture emphasizes building production systems that financial institutions can trust – a rare combination of AI research and institutional rigor.

## Sources
1. [obin.ai – About page](https://www.obin.ai/about)
2. [obin.ai – Careers page](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
3. [obin.ai – Homepage](https://www.obin.ai/)
4. [obin.ai – Stealth announcement & news](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)
5. [builtin.com – Obin AI profile](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)

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