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title: 'AI Platform Engineering Lead at Obin AI'
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# AI Platform Engineering Lead at Obin AI

- **Company:** Obin AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $250k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDo0bVK3wSX7yf8KxtBNnLmA

## Job description

## The role

This is the founding platform engineering leadership role. You will own the paved road: the scaffolding, tooling, isolation model, and release machinery that lets engineers ship compliant agent workflows in a day instead of weeks — and, before long, let a customer's own engineers do it without us in the room. You will lead a small, high caliber and capable team. A meaningful part of this job is establishing the engineering standards.

## What you'll own

The golden path. Scaffolding, templates, and defaults so a new solution stands up with backend, ingest, RBAC, and audit packaging already handled — and the engineers write only agent logic. The shared tool catalog. Today every agent intent re-authors its own tool definitions. Make tools first-class, versioned, referenced objects rather than copy-paste. Versioning and promotion lanes. Agents and playbooks move local → shared → production through auditable, gated CI/CD. No silent edits to anything shared. The compliance harness. Provable auditability and governance for every agent run: who changed what, which version executed, which sources grounded which claim. Testing infrastructure. A skill and tool testing suite, regression gates, and shadow A/B in production environments. Multi-tenancy done properly. Logical isolation across the control, data, execution, and playbook planes — strong enough that a customer's security review passes without us resorting to dedicated per-tenant infrastructure. The customer-facing developer experience. SDK, API gateway, sandboxed evaluation, trace-level debugging, and egress webhooks that a bank's own quant engineers can safely build against. A repeatable vendoring cycle. We ship sanitized codebases into customer environments today. Make that a supported, IP-defensible process. Engineering standards that stick. Written specs, clear approval rights, real separation of concerns, and a team that knows the difference between deliberate technical debt and accidental technical debt.

## What we're looking for

You have built and operated a multi-tenant platform that external developers built on — SDK or API surface, tenant isolation, gated deploys, the whole path. You have shipped in a regulated environment and can hold your own on SOC 2, audit trails, access control, and model risk without treating them as someone else's problem. You have converted services delivery into product before. You know which bespoke work becomes a platform primitive and which is a one-off you should refuse to generalize. You have led engineers directly, including engineers earlier in their careers, and you set standards by writing things down rather than by being in every conversation. You are opinionated about developer experience and can defend those opinions with what happened last time. Signals we weight heavily Internal developer platform, paved road, or platform-as-a-service ownership at a company that sold to enterprises. You have said no to a customer request in order to protect a platform abstraction — and can explain how you made that call. You have introduced written decision-making to a team that ran on hallway conversation, and it survived contact. Comfort with AI agent systems is welcome but not required.

## 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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