Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Obin AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Obin AI is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer in New York City to build and scale intelligent agents. As part of a high-caliber team, you'll tackle complex engineering challenges and own key technical decisions.

Ideal candidates will possess 5–10+ years of software engineering experience, particularly with LLM-based agents and cloud infrastructure, especially GCP. The role includes designing systems, understanding customer workflows, and contributing to engineering culture.

Competitive salary of $170,000 - $230,000 along with performance bonuses and comprehensive benefits offered.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-based agents.
• Strong communication skills in high-stakes situations.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy LLM-powered agents.
• Partner with customers to co-develop AI solutions.
• Architect and maintain backend systems and APIs.

Skills

Software engineering

Building LLM-based agents

Proficiency in Python

Experience with cloud infrastructure

System architecture intuition

Tools

GCP

PydanticAI

LlamaIndex

Claude Agent SDK

Job description

Forward Deployed AI Engineer View all jobsForward Deployed AI EngineerNYC-MetroEngineering/ProductIn officeFull-time### 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 join our team as one of our earliest hires. You'll work among a team if high caliber engineers and help some of the largest customers in Private Equity, Private Credit and Insurance in solving complex engineering challenges. You will 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 roadmapWe believe great AI Engineers come from diverse backgrounds and are unified by deep curiosity, pragmatism, and engineering excellence.**Experience Required:**● 5–10+ years of software engineering experience● Hands-on experience building LLM-based agents and/or RAG systems in production● Logging, evaluating, optimizing AI applications● 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 toolingIn addition to the Base salary, this position is also eligible for a annual performance bonus and comprehensive benefits.$170,000 - $230,000 \*depending upon experience**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.Ready to apply?Powered byFirst name \*Last name \*Email \*LinkedIn URL \*Location \*Resume \*Click to upload or drag and drop hereGithub repo \*Years of experience \*Year graduated \*The year you last graduated from highest degreeDo you require work sponsorships? \*Rate your familiarity with Claude code (1 - 4 with 1 being lowest) or other AI coding agents and explain. \*Single sentence description of your last project in building AI agents \*By applying you agree to Gem's terms and privacy policy.Save your info to apply to other roles faster & help employers reach you.Req ID: R13