Reflection

Forward Deployed Engineer - LLM Post-training

We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, 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
Mid level
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
Not disclosed

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-04-22 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

language model fine-tuningsftpreference optimizationreinforcement fine-tuningevaluation methodologydebuggingtraining issue diagnosisfacing environmentsuser understandingrequirement translationpythongpus

From the posting

Our Mission Reflection’s mission is to build open superintelligence and make it accessible to all . We’re developing open weight models for individuals, agents, enterprises, and even nation states. Our team of AI researchers and company builders come from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta, Character.AI, Anthropic and beyond. Role Overview We're looking for a core member of Reflection's Applied AI team to drive model fine-tuning and evaluations for enterprise customers. This team takes Reflection's open-weight models and adapts them for specific customer domains, tasks, and constraints. As a ML Engineer, you will work hands-on with customer data, run fine-tuning workflows, build evaluation harnesses, and deploy adapted models to production. You'll work directly with customers to understand what they need and with research teams to push what's possible. …

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