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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.\nAbout the Role\nResearch Program Managers at Reflection are high-leverage leaders and operators who embed directly with research and engineering teams to accelerate the pace of frontier model development. They are not project trackers. They are force multipliers who bring clarity to ambiguity, drive decisions when the path forward is unclear, and ensure that the work happening across multiple teams connects into a coherent whole.\nThis role is embedded directly within our Pre-training ML and Data teams, working alongside our Pre-training research leads at the core of how we build frontier models. You will be deeply involved in the research lifecycle, from data pipeline coordination and experiment planning to model architecture decisions and scaling strategies. Your job is to understand how our researchers work, identify the highest-leverage gaps, and build the programs, processes, and coordination structures that let them focus on pushing the frontier rather than navigating organizational complexity.\nYou bring a first-responder mentality. When things go sideways, you don't wait to be asked. 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Create coordination mechanisms for cross-team handoffs, config management, and research milestones that replace ad hoc Slack threads with durable, visible systems.\n\nAct as the connective tissue between pre-training, mid-training, post-training, and infrastructure teams, ensuring that upstream decisions propagate cleanly and downstream teams are never surprised.\n\nAbout You\n7+ years of experience in technical program management, research operations, or ML engineering, with a track record of building programs from scratch in research or ML-heavy environments.\n\nDeep enough technically to engage with researchers on topics like model architecture, scaling laws, data processing pipelines, training dynamics, and optimizer behavior. You don't need to run the experiments yourself, but you need to follow the reasoning and spot risks early in order to discuss tradeoffs.\n\nProven ability to embed within technical teams and earn trust through competence, reliability, and genuine curiosity about the work. Researchers want to work with you because you make them faster, not because the process says they have to.\n\nResourceful and high-agency. You navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities without losing momentum. You figure out what needs to happen and you make it happen.\n\nStrong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior technical staff through consistent delivery and well-informed judgment, not authority.\n\nComfortable in high-stakes environments where decisions impact model quality, compute spend, and training timelines measured in weeks or months.\n\nExcited to build from zero to one. We are a small, fast-moving team and this role will help define how research program management works at Reflection.\n\nMotivated by enabling researchers and engineers to build the world's most capable open-weight AI systems.\n\nWhat We Offer:\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nTop-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.\n\nStock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.\n\nHealth & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.\n\nMeals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.\n\nLife & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.\n\nVacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.\n\nSponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.\n\nTeam building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.\n\nExport Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. 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