Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Compute Platform

The role

You will lead a team of systems engineers to build and operate a Kubernetes-based compute layer distributed across multiple neo-clouds. You will guide technical decisions for multi-cloud scheduling, cluster management, and GPU deployments while managing vendor relationships.

What you will do

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of systems engineers.
• Provide front-line leadership of engineering efforts for the compute fleet.
• Make targeted individual contributor contributions to the technical stack.
• Prioritize team work and manage projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Guide technical and architectural decisions regarding scalability and reliability.
• Co-design fault tolerance, node health checks, and remediation with training teams.
• Manage vendor relationships and important deals.
• Prepare the fleet for next-generation GPUs and larger clusters.

Required qualifications

• Experience building, mentoring, and growing systems or infrastructure teams while staying technically hands-on.
• Deep systems-level engineering experience with a focus on cluster-wide behavior and maintenance.
• Strong coding ability.
• Depth in at least one of orchestration, storage, or GPU hardware.
• Alignment with a Kubernetes-first architecture.
• Experience managing vendors, including negotiating and operating important deals.
• Ability to guide strategy and drive execution across a multi-cloud, large-fleet environment.

Nice to have

• Deep GPU knowledge beyond standard Kubernetes (e.g., NCCL)
• Cloud storage expertise — managing high-performance data products (like VAST) across multiple data centers and handling datasets and checkpointing at scale

Benefits

• Salary and equity
• Stock options
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life
• Annual wellness allowance
• Lunch and dinner provided in the office daily
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents
• Unlimited paid time off in the U.S.
• 30 days paid time off in the U.K.
• Visa sponsorship support
• Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations

Before you apply

• This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
• Any offer of employment may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide access to technology or source code in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

About the company

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. They build open models to help shape the future of AI.