Lead AI Deployment Architect for Classified Gov

Reflection; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health & wellness

Meals provided in office

Parental leave (22 weeks)

Job summary

Reflection is seeking a Deployment Staff member to own the technical execution of strategic engagements from discovery through production delivery. You will work across the AI stack—GPU orchestration, inference, model post-training, and custom harnesses—while partnering with customer ML teams to deliver secure, high-impact solutions.

You will support U.S. government customers in secure environments and contribute to shaping Reflection’s platform based on field learnings.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering software into classified or air-gapped government environments.
• Strong Python and production-grade systems shipping experience.
• Track record leading complex technical projects across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Secure Deployment: design, deploy, and operate agentic systems in air-gapped networks.
• Mission Engagement: work on-site with government customers in secure facilities.
• Technical Discovery & Architecture: lead deep technical discovery across inference workloads, agentic apps, post-training.
• Benchmarks & POCs: own proofs of concept end-to-end with real workloads.
• Delivery: architect and build AI systems including model-serving infra and post-training recipes.
• Product & Research Contribution: identify patterns and model gaps to shape platform.
• Playbooks & Operating Model: define playbooks, architectures, and reusable assets.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

GPU clusters

Agent engineering

Leadership

Customer-facing

Tools

vLLM

SGLang

Slurm

Job description

Reflection is seeking a Deployment Staff member to own the technical execution of strategic engagements from discovery through production delivery. You will work across the AI stack—GPU orchestration, inference, model post-training, and custom harnesses—while partnering with customer ML teams to deliver secure, high-impact solutions.

You will support U.S. government customers in secure environments and contribute to shaping Reflection’s platform based on field learnings.