Tobias Schindler

Tobias Schindler is a software engineer and Founding Engineer at Listen Labs in San Francisco, a startup building AI-led user-research agents (product domain talktomerlin.com). He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (BSc, 2018-2021), completed an Honours Degree at CDTM (2021-2022), and took an MS in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University (2022-2023). Internships include software engineering at Jane Street in London (2021) and Autopilot at Tesla in Palo Alto (2023). He represented Germany at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2018, winning a silver medal.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The LinkedIn profile carrying the IOI identity (headline 'IOI & ICPC'; Donau-Gymnasium Kelheim and TUM history matching the contestant) lists 'Intern Software Engineering' at Jane Street in London for 2021 - an actual internship, not a student program, insight day, or camp. Employer classification: Jane Street is a global proprietary trading firm and ETF market maker whose core business is quantitative/systematic trading, so it qualifies as a quantitative-finance employer; the role title is software engineering, not a trading or quant-research seat. Evidence basis: the role comes from LinkedIn profile data surfaced by the enrichment index (an aggregator), not from an independent primary-source confirmation.Jun 2021
• Listen Labs' founding team traces back to the 35th Bundeswettbewerb Informatik (2017), where Tobias Schindler, Florian Juengermann, and Erik Suenderhauf met as competitors; the three later built Listen Labs together - the relationship predates the company by years.Oct 2025
• Founding Engineer at Listen Labs (San Francisco) since 2024; the company builds AI-led user-research agents sold under the Merlin product at talktomerlin.com, which is why earlier references say he 'joined Merlin AI' - Merlin is the product, not a separate employer.Jan 2024
• Identity cross-check holds: the IOI contestant 'Tobias Schindler, 16, aus Kelheim (Donau-Gymnasium Kelheim)' won a prize at the 35th Bundeswettbewerb Informatik (2017), and that school matches the Abitur on the LinkedIn profile - so the contest record and the professional profile describe the same person.May 10, 2017
• Silver medal for Germany at IOI 2018 in Tsukuba, Japan, per the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame; the IOI stats profile (6524) confirms him as a German Contestant and links the Codeforces handle tob123.Sep 2018
• Autopilot Intern at Tesla (Palo Alto, 2023) - a real engineering internship distinct from the Jane Street stint; combined with the Jane Street SWE internship, his internships span autonomy/ML and proprietary trading rather than a single quant-trading track.Jan 2023
• MS in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University (2022-2023) following an Honours Degree in Technology Management from CDTM (2021-2022) and a BSc in Computer Science at TUM (2018-2021); the CMU degree aligns with the 2023 Tesla Autopilot internship.Jan 2023
• Codeforces handle tob123 was linked from his IOI stats profile, tying his competitive-programming accounts to the same identity.Sep 2018