Member of Technical Staff Engineering Lead Data Platform

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 lead and grow a data platform engineering team while guiding the technical direction of data ingestion, orchestration, processing, storage, quality, and governance. You will work hands-on on designs, architecture, and code while enabling experimentation across research, training, and production.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience
  • Data engineering experience
  • Experience owning production-grade pipelines at large scale
  • Staff or principal-level individual contributor experience
  • Engineering leadership experience or readiness
  • Knowledge of ingestion, orchestration, storage, processing, data quality, lineage, or reproducibility
  • Experience with modern data systems

Responsibilities

  • Build, mentor, and grow a data platform engineering team
  • Guide ingestion and orchestration architecture
  • Build scalable compute and storage foundations
  • Enable experimentation through a unified data layer
  • Establish data quality, lineage, and governance signals
  • Manage cost and performance guardrails
  • Conduct design reviews and make architecture decisions

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 days of vacation in the U.K.
  • Visa sponsorship support
  • Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations
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