Member of Technical Staff - Data Quality Engineer Pre-training

Reflection is an AI research lab building open frontier models and a full AI stack for developers, enterprises, and public-sector users.

New York, United States
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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About the Role

You will define and operationalize measurable data-quality standards for LLM pre-training. You will analyze data, build and validate automated QA methods alongside human-in-the-loop processes, create reusable quality pipelines, provide vendor feedback, and monitor quality trends to improve acceptance criteria.

Requirements

  • Experience building data pipelines, QA systems, or evaluation workflows for pre-training data
  • Understanding of data quality impacts on pre-training
  • Experience designing automated quality checks
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience building ML or LLM workflows
  • Experience with large datasets and automated evaluation or quality-checking systems
  • Familiarity with LLM training and evaluation
  • Communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Own upstream data quality for LLM pre-training
  • Translate requirements into measurable quality signals
  • Provide actionable feedback to external data vendors
  • Design, validate, and scale automated QA methods
  • Build reusable QA pipelines for model training
  • Monitor and report data quality over time
  • Improve quality standards, processes, and acceptance criteria

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