ReflectionAI

ReflectionAI

Trade Compliance Counsel

New York

H1B sponsorship availableDetected 46 days ago
ComplianceOutbound SalesResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • You will not simply answer one-off legal questions

Responsibilities

  • Advise on existing and developing U.S. and international trade compliance laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions programs, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), anti-boycott rules, and other applicable trade-control regimes.
  • Design and mature Reflection's sanctions and export controls compliance program, including policies, procedures, screening, customer and counterparty diligence, technology-control planning, licensing workflows, and escalation protocols.
  • Support engagement with BIS, OFAC, DDTC, and other authorities on licensing, interpretive guidance, regulatory inquiries, and potential disclosure matters.
  • Support internal reviews, investigations, and remediation plans relating to potential sanctions, export control, or trade compliance issues.
  • Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.
  • Team building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.
  • Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team.

Requirements

  • Approximately 10+ years of experience advising on U.S. sanctions, export controls, and related trade compliance regimes, including meaningful experience with OFAC sanctions programs and the EAR.
  • Strong ability to exercise independent judgment and take proactive steps in areas where the law is evolving, agency guidance is incomplete, or the business context does not fit neatly into legacy regulatory categories.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal requirements to engineers, researchers, infrastructure teams, commercial teams, executives, and non-lawyer operators.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience at a high-growth technology company, AI lab, cloud provider, semiconductor company, cybersecurity company, defense technology company, or other export-control-sensitive business.

Compensation

  • Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
  • Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.

Benefits

  • Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
  • Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.
  • Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.
  • Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
  • Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

Company info

  • make intelligence open and accessible to all.
  • Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on.
  • We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.

This listing is sourced directly from ReflectionAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.