Reflection

Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - LLM Post-training

We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Reflection
Location
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked for
6+ years
Pay band
Not disclosed

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-07-21 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

post-training experiencerl training environmentspreference optimizationsynthetic data generationreward modelsverifiers for reinforcement learningpost-training leadershipreward signalsdata preparationresults evaluationevaluation infrastructuredata pipeline

From the posting

Our Mission 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. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all. Role Overview We're seeking an exceptional technical leader to build and scale Reflection's post-training and evaluation capabilities within the Applied AI team. This team works at the intersection of model adaptation, sovereign deployment, and enterprise deployment: taking Reflection's open-weight models and making them work for specific customer domains, tasks, and constraints. As a Forward Deployed Engineer Lead, Post-Training, you will own the end-to-end technical strategy for model customization, from synthetic data generation and reward modeling through training and production deployment. …

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