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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.\nYou’ll be\nDesigning and Deploying LLM-Powered Agents\n Build agentic systems using LLMs and RAG to automate complex credit workflows. This includes prompt design, tool use, orchestration logic, and system evaluation.\nWorking Directly with Customers\n 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.\nOwning Production Infrastructure\n Architect and maintain backend systems and APIs that connect to data sources and customer platforms. Ensure high availability, performance, and observability.\nEvaluating and Optimizing Systems\n Balance accuracy, latency, reliability, cost, and explainability in our agentic systems. Lead rigorous experimentation and improvement cycles.\nContributing to Core Platform Design\n Define technical architecture, build reusable infrastructure for agent deployment, and shape the foundation of Obin’s AI engineering best practices.\nSetting Culture and Standards\n Help define Obin’s engineering culture, hiring bar, and long-term technical roadmap\nWe believe great AI Engineers come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence.\nExperience Required:\n6-10+ years of software engineering experience\n1-2+ years of hands-on experience building LLM-based agents and/or RAG systems in production\nBuilds multi-agent orchestration (agent-to-agent handoffs), RAG systems and vector DB routing; optimizes LLM latency and inference cost; contributes to eval/guardrail frameworks. Logging, evaluating, optimizing AI applications\nProficiency in Python and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)\nExperience with cloud infra (preferably GCP) and APIs\nHunger to move fast, own outcomes, and build something enduring\nStrong intuition around system architecture, performance, and scaling\nClear communication, especially in ambiguous, high-stakes problem spaces\nBonus:\nExperience with human-in-the-loop systems, feedback loops, and long-horizon agentic task execution\nBackground in financial systems, risk modeling, or decision automation\nFamiliarity with PydanticAI, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, or similar frameworks\nYou’ve built or contributed to an internal AI platform or reusable LLM tooling\nBase compensation range:\n$200,000 - $300,000 Plus Equity\n**some roles might be bonus eligible\nAbout Us:\nObin AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence company building the next generation of agentic intelligence for financial services. 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