Forward Deployed Engineer Lead AI Engineer
Reflection is an AI research lab building open frontier models and a full AI stack for developers, enterprises, and public-sector users.
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About Reflection
Reflection develops open-weight AI models, open-source software for customizing and running agents, AI-factory infrastructure, and related solutions. Its current research emphasizes large language models, reinforcement learning, and agentic reasoning.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead the technical strategy, execution, and delivery of enterprise agentic applications. You will partner with sales and deployment stakeholders, architect LLM workflows, adapt models, deploy solutions across hybrid environments, and establish engineering standards and mentorship.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience with Python and TypeScript
- Experience deploying enterprise software in cloud or hybrid environments
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Machine learning concepts
- Vector databases
- RAG pipelines
- Agent orchestration
- Evaluation
- Fine-tuning
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years of technical leadership experience delivering AI-driven enterprise solutions
- Customer-facing technical experience
Responsibilities
- Partner with deployment strategists and sales to understand customer needs and architect solutions
- Architect and build agentic systems and LLM workflows
- Adapt and fine-tune models for customer-specific needs
- Own deployments across public cloud, VPC, and on-premises environments
- Define playbooks, best practices, and technical standards
- Mentor engineers and support team growth
Benefits
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Annual wellness allowance
- Daily office lunch and dinner
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off in the U.S.
- 30 vacation days in the U.K.
- Visa sponsorship support
- Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations