Data Scientist

Build the AI workforce that finance can actually trust. We are closing the gap between what AI promises and what regulated institutions can responsibly deploy. If you fall in love with hard problems — not easy answers — this is where your work matters. 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 expe [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 finan [... source excerpt omitted ...] s + Equity About Us: Obin AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence company building the next generation of agentic intelligence for financial services. The company develops a production-ready AI workforce that runs defined workflows end-to-end inside a firm’s controls and audit boundaries, encoding institution-specific logic and producing traceable, inspectable outputs. Because of its open, no-lock-in architecture and ability to resolve even nuanced edge cases, Obin AI is trusted by leading global financial institutions representing over $1 trillion in assets under management. Obin AI enables these organizations to standardize and accelerate their core workflows — continuous m