ReflectionAI

ReflectionAI

Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer

New York

H1B sponsorship availableDetected 70 days ago
TypeScriptPythonVector DatabasesDockerKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationResearchLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • This team plays a critical role in bridging our cutting-edge AI research with real-world enterprise deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Deployment Strategists and Sales to understand enterprise customer needs, architect solutions, and develop transformative agentic applications.
  • Architect and build complex agentic systems using state-of-the-art models, orchestrating sophisticated LLM workflows and integrating deeply with enterprise infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with research teams to adapt and fine-tune models for customer-specific needs, contributing to our internal codebase for inference, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
  • Shape and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering organization by defining playbooks, best practices, technical standards, and mentorship to support team growth.
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership capacity delivering AI-driven enterprise solutions (e.g., Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager).
  • 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.
  • We're seeking an exceptional technical lead to build and scale Reflection's Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background with experience shipping production-grade systems (Python, Typescript)

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.

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.