Research Program Manager Model Evals and Safety

Our Mission

Reflections mission is to build open superintelligence and make it accessible to all.

Were developing open weight models for individuals agents enterprises and even nation states. Our team of AI researchers and company builders come from DeepMind OpenAI Google Brain Meta Anthropic and beyond.

About the Role

Research Program Managers at Reflection are high-leverage leaders and operators who embed directly with research and infrastructure 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.

This is a foundational role. Reflection is building model evals and safety from the ground up and this RPM will be at the center of that effort. You wont be stepping into an established function with existing processes and tooling. You will be the person who figures out what this function needs to look like stands it up and makes it real. That means defining the evaluation frameworks building the operational infrastructure for model safety establishing the processes that connect evals to the model development lifecycle and laying the groundwork for how Reflection interfaces with the broader safety ecosystem. This is 0-to-1 work in its purest form.

You bring a first-responder mentality. When things go sideways you dont wait to be asked. You jump in assess the situation cut through noise align the people who need to be aligned and drive resolution.

What Youll Do

• Build the foundational infrastructure for model evals and safety at Reflection. Define the evaluation frameworks tooling requirements and operational processes that will underpin how we assess model capabilities risks and readiness for release.

• Stand up model safety operations as a function including establishing the workflows review cadences and decision frameworks that connect safety evaluation to the model development and release lifecycle.

• Partner with research and engineering leads across pre-training mid-training and post-training to embed safety and evaluation checkpoints into the development process in a way that is rigorous without being a bottleneck.

• Drive the scoping and prioritization of eval science and eval infrastructure investments working with technical leads to determine what to build in-house what to adopt and where to invest research effort.

• Establish Reflections engagement with the external safety ecosystem including third-party assessments academic partnerships and industry safety frameworks. Represent the companys safety posture to external stakeholders with credibility and clarity.

• Create visibility and reporting structures that give leadership a clear honest picture of model safety status evaluation coverage and open risks so they can make informed decisions at the pace the business requires.

• Champion a culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous learning turning every safety-relevant finding into a concrete improvement to our systems and processes.

About You

• 7 years of experience in technical program management research operations or ML engineering with demonstrated experience standing up new functions teams or programs from scratch.

• Familiar with the landscape of model evaluation and AI safety including evaluation methodologies red-teaming alignment research and the evolving regulatory and industry safety ecosystem. You dont need to be a safety researcher but you need to understand the space well enough to make sound judgments about what matters and what to prioritize.

• Deep enough technically to engage with researchers and engineers on topics like model behavior evaluation design data pipelines and safety-critical system architecture. You follow the technical thread and you know when something doesnt add up.

• Proven ability to build structures where none exists. Youve taken ambiguous mandates and turned them into functioning programs with clear ownership measurable outcomes and durable processes.

• Strong stakeholder management skills spanning deeply technical ICs research leadership and external partners. You build trust through competence and follow-through.

• Excited to build from zero to one. We are a small fast-moving team and this role will help define how model safety and evaluation works at Reflection.

• Motivated by enabling researchers and engineers to build the worlds most capable open-weight AI systems responsibly.

What We Offer:

We believe that to build superintelligence that is truly open you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a small talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company and help define the frontier 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 the best talent globally.

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical dental vision life and disability insurance.

• Life & family: Fully paid parental leave for all new parents including adoptive and surrogate journeys. Financial support for family planning.

• Benefits & balance: paid time off when you need it relocation support and more perks that optimize your time.

• Opportunities to connect with teammates: lunch and dinner are provided daily. We have regular off-sites and team celebrations.

Required Experience:

Manager