Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Ingestion

the team's technical stack enough to make targeted contributions as an individual contributor. Manage day-to-day execution: prioritize

the team's work and run data acquisition and ingestion campaigns in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment. Guide technical and architectural decisions, emphasizing scalability, reliability, auditability, and cost crawler architecture and politeness/scheduling, distributed processing (Ray/Beam/Spark), orchestration (Airflow/Prefect), storage formats and layout (Parquet, JSONL, WARC; object stores and lakehouse formats), deduplication, and dataset versioning and delivery. Close the loop with research: partner with pre-training and data quality teams to tie ingestion decisions to measurable downstream model impact, and run experiments to evaluate crawling strategies, extraction methods, and ingestion tradeoffs. Work across the wider data effort data partnerships, digitization operations, and external vendors to onboard new sources within legal, licensing, and robots.txt constraints. Raise the bar for technical judgment, prioritization, communication, and execution in a fast-moving environment.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Experience building, mentoring, and growing data or infrastructure engineering teams while staying technically hands-on. (Comfortable growing into leading a larger team quickly if you haven't managed at that scale before.) Deep experience building web-scale data acquisition or ingestion systems, with real ownership of production-grade pipelines at multi-TB to PB scale. Strong coding ability and the credibility to earn the technical trust of a strong team. Deep expertise in at least one of: web crawling & acquisition , large-scale extraction & ingestion pipelines , or data lakes / corpus storage & delivery with working knowledge across the others, and the ability to learn the rest. Fluency with the modern large-scale data toolkit: distributed compute (Ray, Beam, Spark), orchestration (Airflow, Prefect), formats (Parquet, JSONL, WARC), and object-store / data-lake architectures. Familiarity with how LLMs are trained and evaluated, and an intuition for what makes data useful for training; comfortable designing experiments and using proxy quality signals to guide system improvements. Ability to guide strategy and drive execution across concurrent data campaigns, and to partner effectively with research teams, external data vendors, and partnerships/legal on acquisition. 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. Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws, which may require the Company to seek government authorization.

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