Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer Lead

reflectionai; New York, California (NY, MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top compensation

Stock options

Health insurance

Meals provided

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Visa sponsorship

Team events

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.