About the role
What will you do at Obin AI?
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
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