Our Mission
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.
The Roles Mission
Bridge the gap between research and production by turning cutting-edge algorithms into scalable training systems. You will design and optimize the core infrastructure behind frontier AI models — from reinforcement learning training loops and distributed GPU training to massive-scale data pipelines.
Our systems train models across thousands of GPUs and process petabyte-scale datasets. We care deeply about numerical stability, throughput, and reproducibility.
What This Team Does
This team owns and evolves the core infrastructure behind our training systems.
We focus on:
Reinforcement learning training infrastructure
Distributed training and inference systems
Experiment infrastructure and reproducibility
Large-scale data pipelines
The goal is to build the engineering foundation that allows researchers to iterate quickly while training models at massive scale.
About the Role
You will architect and optimize the core training infrastructure that powers our models. This includes RL training loops, distributed GPU systems, and large-scale data pipelines.
You will work closely with researchers to transform new ideas into reliable, scalable training systems.
Responsibilities include:
Designing and optimizing large-scale training loops and data pipelines.
Implementing state-of-the-art techniques and ensuring they are numerically stable and computationally efficient.
Building internal tooling for launching, monitoring, and reproducing complex experiments.
Diagnosing deep bottlenecks across the training stack (GPU memory issues, communication overhead, dataloader stalls).
Translating research prototypes into reusable, production-grade infrastructure.
What You'll Work With
Distributed Training
GPU parallelism (data, tensor, pipeline, expert)
Large-scale distributed training infrastructure
Communication optimization (NCCL, RDMA, GPU interconnects)
FSDP / ZeRO and model sharding
Orchestration & Runtime Systems
Ray, Kubernetes, Slurm
Distributed runtimes and async systems
Containerization and sandboxing
Frameworks
PyTorch
JAX
Megatron-style training stacks
Triton / custom kernels
Data Infrastructure
Large-scale dataset curation pipelines
Deduplication and filtering systems
Tokenization and preprocessing
Distributed data processing frameworks
About You
You are a strong software engineer who speaks the language of machine learning.
You may not have a PhD, but you know how to implement a research paper.
You have deep experience in at least one of the following: Distributed Training & Inference or Data Infrastructure
You enjoy working at the boundary between:
Machine learning algorithms
Distributed systems
High-performance computing
You care deeply about performance, numerical stability, and reproducibility.
You thrive in high-agency environments and enjoy solving hard technical problems.
What We Offer:
We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.
We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.
Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.
Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.
Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.
Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.
Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.
Team building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.
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