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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.\nYou’ll work on:\nEvals and Optimization\nYou 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.\nApplied Research 0→1 System Design\n 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.\nExploratory Research - Bold, Big Bets\n You critically explore recent advancements drawing from the full breadth of related exploratory efforts to establish company-wide perspectives and opportunities for innovation. 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You should be using tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, Notebook LM, and Claude Code to accelerate your workflow.\nStrong Programming and Data Analysis Skills\n You need to have strong programming skills to be able to prove-out your ideas.\nBiases Towards Showing vs. Telling\n Our customers want to see the power of AI today vs discuss the most elegant idea that will take 5 years to realize.\nWe believe great Data Scientists come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence.\nYou Have:\n8+ years experience\nA deep understanding of how to design and evaluate LLM-based applications\nAbility to interpret statistical insights to non-technical or executive audiences\nStrong programming skills\nBonus:\nExperience in financial systems, risk modeling, or decision automation\nFamiliarity with ML training and deployment\nExperience with embedded analytics\nBase compensation range:\n$180,000 - $210,000\nPlus Annual Bonus + Equity\nAbout Us:\nObin AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence company building the next generation of agentic intelligence for financial services. 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