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About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers are Reflection’s technical owners in every customer engagement. You will own the technical execution of strategic engagements end to end, from discovery and solution architecture through proof-of-concept and production delivery. The work spans every layer of the AI stack: GPU orchestration, inference, model post-training, and the custom harnesses and applications built on top. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience delivering software into classified or air-gapped government environments: you know the security controls, the accreditation processes, and the limits on offline deployment
- Strong technical fluency: comfortable reading, writing and reasoning about code, architecture and system behavior, with strong Python and experience shipping production-grade systems
- A track record of leading complex technical projects: coordinating contributors across work-streams, making practical tradeoffs, removing obstacles, and owning end-to-end delivery outcomes
- Agent engineering: you’ve shipped LLM-based agents to production in the last 1–2 years, designed their harnesses (tool calling and MCP, context management, orchestration, guardrails) and the evals behind them, and know when post-training can be used
- 5+ years of relevant experience delivering technical systems , including 2+ years in a technical leadership role (e.g., tech lead, engineering manager or founding engineer)
- Self-starter with high agency and ownership who excels in fast-paced startup environments where the playbooks are still being written
More about this role
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.
Forward Deployed Engineers are Reflection’s technical owners in every customer engagement. You will own the technical execution of strategic engagements end to end, from discovery and solution architecture through proof-of-concept and production delivery. The work spans every layer of the AI stack: GPU orchestration, inference, model post-training, and the custom harnesses and applications built on top.
We’re seeking exceptional people with depth across the AI stack who can partner with customer’s ML and engineering teams, win and deliver strategic engagements, and turn what they learn in the field into input that shapes our models and platform.
In this role, you will support U.S. government customers, deploying Reflection’s open models into secure, classified, or edge environments.
This position requires an active U.S. government clearance (TS/SCI preferred).
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