Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer Lead

reflectionai

New York, California (NY, MO)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Reflection is seeking a Technical Lead to build and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team. You will own end-to-end technical strategy, execution, and delivery of complex agentic applications from pre-sales through production deployment.

You will lead architectural efforts across hybrid environments, drive DevOps practices, and mentor the growing team while collaborating with research and deployment partners to meet customer needs.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background with production-grade systems experience.
  • Proven enterprise software deployment in cloud/hybrid environments.
  • Hands-on ML stack knowledge: vector databases, RAG pipelines, agent orchestration.
  • 6+ years software engineering with 2+ years in a leadership capacity.
  • Customer-facing experience and ability to architect solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Deployment Strategists and Sales to design enterprise solutions.
  • Architect and build complex agentic systems and LLM workflows.
  • Collaborate with research to adapt models for clients.

Skills

Python
Typescript
DevOps practices
ML concepts
Leadership

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD

Job description

Reflection is seeking a Technical Lead to build and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team. You will own end-to-end technical strategy, execution, and delivery of complex agentic applications from pre-sales through production deployment.

You will lead architectural efforts across hybrid environments, drive DevOps practices, and mentor the growing team while collaborating with research and deployment partners to meet customer needs.

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