Forward Deployed Engineer - LLM Post-training

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.

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  Fine-tune Reflection's open-weight models for customer-specific use cases: prepare datasets, configure training runs (SFT, preference optimization, reinforcement fine-tuning), and iterate based on evals.

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  Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure: design eval suites, curate test sets, establish baselines, and measure whether fine-tuned models actually improve on the tasks customers care about.

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  Prepare training data from raw customer inputs: inspect data quality, clean and format datasets, identify adversarial or noisy samples, and build reproducible data pipelines.

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  Debug and diagnose training and inference issues: interpret loss curves, catch data quality problems, and identify when training dynamics indicate something is wrong.

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  Support end-to-end deployments of fine-tuned models across hybrid environments (public cloud, VPC, and on-premises), helping ensure inference performance and reliability in production.

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  Contribute to evolving playbooks, evaluation benchmarks, and best practices as part of a growing fine-tuning and evals practice.

• Applied ML experience with hands-on fine-tuning of language models. You have prepared datasets, run training loops, evaluated results, and shipped a fine-tuned model. Familiarity with SFT, DPO, RLHF, or similar techniques.

• Understanding of evaluation methodology: how to design evals, interpret training graphs, and tell whether a model is actually better or just overfitting to the benchmark.

• Comfort with training infrastructure: GPUs, compute management, debugging common training failures. You don't need to be an infra engineer, but you should not be afraid of a stack trace from a training loop.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (Python). You write clean, reproducible code. Experience with data pipelines and version control for datasets and experiments.

• 3+ years of engineering experience with meaningful exposure to applied ML or ML engineering (e.g., MLE, Applied Scientist, Data Scientist who shipped models to production, or ML-focused SWE).

• Demonstrated ability and interest to work in customer-facing environments, understanding user needs and translating domain requirements into training strategies.

• Self-starter with high agency and ownership, excelling in fast-paced startup environments where playbooks are still being written.