Lead, Data Acquisition & Ingestion Engineering

Reflection AI Ltd

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Reflection AI Ltd. is seeking an Data Acquisition Lead to head a team building the ingestion layer that turning open web, licensed corpora, and other sources into structured datasets for pre-training.

You will mentor data ingestion engineers, guide architecture, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and auditable data pipelines. You will stay hands-on to contribute technically while steering strategy, prioritization, and execution in a fast-moving environment to support

Qualifications

  • Experience building, mentoring, and growing data or infra teams while staying hands-on.

Responsibilities

  • Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing data ingestion team.
  • Lead front-line across the full ingestion stack: web crawling, extraction, and data lakes.
  • Stay hands-on and contribute as an individual
  • Prioritize work and run data acquisition campaigns in a fast-paced environment.
  • Guide architectural decisions for scalable, auditable ingestion pipelines.
  • Collaborate with research, data quality, and partnerships teams to tie ingestion to model impact.

Skills

Data ingestion
Web crawling
Distributed processing
Ray/Beam/Spark
Airflow/Prefect
Dataset versioning
Mentorship/leadership

Tools

Parquet
JSONL
WARC
Cloud object stores

Job description

Reflection AI Ltd. is seeking an Data Acquisition Lead to head a team building the ingestion layer that turning open web, licensed corpora, and other sources into structured datasets for pre-training.

You will mentor data ingestion engineers, guide architecture, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and auditable data pipelines. You will stay hands-on to contribute technically while steering strategy, prioritization, and execution in a fast-moving environment to support

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