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# Staff AI Engineer

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Obin AI posts a staff FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $240,000–$300,000 base, above the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Build and scale production LLM agents that automate complex credit workflows, working directly with founders and major credit-firm customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Obin AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/obin-ai)

Posted Sep 12, 2026 by Obin AI · open on Gem as of Nov 8, 2026

**$240,000–$300,000** New York, NY Full-time

Build and scale production LLM agents that automate complex credit workflows, working directly with founders and major credit-firm customers.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$240K–$300K Above the median

Midpoint $270K · median $225K

This job $240K to $300K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Staff+

- **Role**: Technical lead

### What they ask for

Experience

- **8+ years** software engineering experience
- **2+ years** hands-on experience building AI/ML systems, LLM-based agents, and/or RAG systems in production

Background

- **Software engineering**

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Obin AI

Posted by Obin AI on Sep 12, 2026

### 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 **AI Engineers** who can help us build and scale intelligent agents from the ground up. You'll work directly with the founders (ex-Google) and own key technical decisions from day one.

### You’ll be

**Designing and Deploying LLM-Powered Agents**

Build agentic systems using LLMs and RAG to automate complex credit workflows. This includes prompt design, tool use, orchestration logic, and system evaluation.

**Working Directly with Customers**

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.

**Owning Production Infrastructure**

Architect and maintain backend systems and APIs that connect to data sources and customer platforms. Ensure high availability, performance, and observability.

**Evaluating and Optimizing Systems**

Balance accuracy, latency, reliability, cost, and explainability in our agentic systems. Lead rigorous experimentation and improvement cycles.

**Contributing to Core Platform Design**

Define technical architecture, build reusable infrastructure for agent deployment, and shape the foundation of Obin’s AI engineering best practices.

**Setting Culture and Standards**

Help define Obin’s engineering culture, hiring bar, and long-term technical roadmap

We believe great AI Engineers come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence.

### Experience Required

- 8-12+ years of software engineering experience
- 2-3+ years of hands-on experience building AI/ML systems , LLM-based agents and/or RAG systems in production
- Logging, evaluating, optimizing AI applications
- Sets architecture for agentic AI systems across products; solves ambiguous problems inherent to non-deterministic systems (context pollution, runtime state handoffs, safety).
- Expert in agent-to-agent (A2A) orchestration protocols, self-correcting agent loops, prompt-routing middleware; drives AI safety/reliability practices and evaluation standards; mentors senior engineers.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
- Experience with cloud infra (preferably GCP) and APIs
- Hunger to move fast, own outcomes, and build something enduring
- Strong intuition around system architecture, performance, and scaling
- Clear communication, especially in ambiguous, high-stakes problem spaces

### Bonus

- Experience with human-in-the-loop systems, feedback loops, and long-horizon agentic task execution
- Background in financial systems, risk modeling, or decision automation
- Familiarity with PydanticAI, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, or similar frameworks
- You’ve built or contributed to an internal AI platform or reusable LLM tooling

### Base compensation range

$240,000 - $300,000

Plus **Annual Bonus + 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 monitoring, scalable underwriting, and earlier risk detection — without scaling teams or compromising governance. Founded by seasoned leaders from Google AI, JPMorgan and Silver Lake, Obin AI is reimagining how financial firms operate — deploying AI workers directly within live workflows to expand decision capacity under institutional controls.

Obin AI is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

[View posting at Obin AI](https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDpBWXvBSr_gGNt4d1FDOU09)

## About Obin AI

Obin builds production-grade, governed AI agents (Robins) and an end-to-end platform for regulated financial institutions to automate complex workflows inside their own cloud and control boundaries.

Seed · 10–50 people

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