--- title: 'Data Scientist at Obin AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-scientist-obin-ai-new-york-ztwmrkxp62a4' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Data Scientist at Obin AI - **Company:** Obin AI - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $150k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-02-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDrtea8l6d-xDWE4wSFhQzV6 ## Job description ## The Role We're looking for Data Scientists who will help implement, evaluate, and improve LLM-based applications (agentic applications). You’ll join our team as one of our earliest hires. You will work directly with the founders (ex-Google, ex-Silver Lake) and own key technical decisions from day one. You’ll work on: ●       Evals and Optimization You develop innovative ways to evaluate the performance of agentic AI systems, track them over time, and perform prompt/context optimization and adapter tuning where necessary/appropriate to improve the performance of LLM-based applications. ●       Applied Research 0→1 System Design You integrate cutting-edge models, proprietary data, and innovative architectures to transform business workflows into AI-native processes. They design, implement, and validate these systems through rigorous benchmarking and real-world deployment. ●       Exploratory Research – Bold, Big Bets You critically explore recent advancements drawing from the full breadth of related exploratory efforts to establish company-wide perspectives and opportunities for innovation. You act on these opportunities through bold experimentation, and drive the state of art forward. ●       Data-driven investment decisions You understand the work of an investment analyst and can find ways to apply statistics, machine learning, and data science to streamline tasks like sourcing, screening, due diligence, and asset monitoring. Experience Required: ●       Experience Building with Models, not just Building Models We develop intelligent systems using models rather than training or fine-tuning them. Ideal candidates have expertise in compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, and associated techniques (ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, etc.). ●       Uses AI Every Day Before you can revolutionize someone else’s workflow, you need to revolutionize yours. You should be using tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, Notebook LM, and Claude Code to accelerate your workflow. ●       Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills You need to have strong programming skills to be able to prove-out your ideas. ●       Biases Towards Showing vs. Telling Our customers want to see the power of AI today vs discuss the most elegant idea that will take 5 years to realize. We believe great Data Scientists come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence. You Have: ●       5–10 years experience ●       A deep understanding of how to design and evaluate LLM-based applications ●       Ability to interpret statistical insights to non-technical or executive audiences ●       Strong programming skills Bonus: ●       Experience in financial systems, risk modeling, or decision automation ●       Familiarity with ML training and deployment ●       Experience with embedded analytics ## 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. 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