Reflection AI
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Reflection AI. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Reflection AI
America's open-frontier-lab bet is hiring FDEs before it has fully shipped — pure green-field for people who want to define the function.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Equity-heavy
- Stage
- Frontier lab
A good fit if you're…
- Builders who want ground-floor scope at a fast-scaling lab
- Engineers drawn to open-weight / post-training work
- Candidates open to a Seoul or bicoastal seat
What they do
Reflection AI, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, is positioning itself as America's open-frontier lab — training frontier models and releasing weights while selling to enterprises and governments. It has raised billions and its valuation has climbed into the tens of billions in barely a year, so the company is scaling faster than most of its peers were at the same stage.
What “forward deployed” means here
FDEs here embed with the enterprises and governments adopting Reflection's open models. The board shows the role fanned five postings deep, including an unusual 'LLM post-training' FDE variant — a flavor no other lab offers — meaning some seats sit unusually close to the model rather than pure integration work.
Comp & leveling
The listing doesn't disclose a band. At a lab this early and this well-funded, expect the value to skew heavily toward equity rather than a public top-of-market cash number; treat the upside as the story and pin down the base in-process.
Growth signals
Five FDE postings at once, a Seoul seat alongside New York and San Francisco, and a valuation that has multiplied many times over inside a year. This is a company staffing a field org ahead of a broad model launch — the definition of early.
Analysis updated 2026-09-12
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