Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

Reddit is a community of communities. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the vision for how applied AI solves business problems at Reddit. You will identify where AI can create the most value, set technical direction, and turn that vision into production capabilities that improve how the company works across its business and technical functions like Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance.
This is an opportunity to shape a growing engineering practice with impact across Reddit. Working with business leaders and the AI Platform team, you will define priorities, challenge assumptions about existing workflows, and guide investments in AI applications, agents, and automations. Your decisions will connect emerging AI capabilities to measurable improvements in quality, speed, capacity, and cost.
Your impact will come from the business problems you help Reddit solve and the teams you make more effective.
You will also lead through delivery: organizing the work of engineers, mentoring engineers and technical leads, and establishing the architecture and engineering practices that help teams ship reliable solutions. Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems at Reddit.
Translate ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows and technical delivery plans.
Understand function goals, jobs to be done, workflows, systems, data, and success measures.
Integrate approved data, tools, APIs, and actions into safe end-to-end workflows.
Return repeated needs, blockers, and infrastructure requirements to the AI Platform Hub.
Turn local wins into reusable agents, skills, templates, connectors, playbooks, and platform patterns.
Stay current with advances in AI models, agents, tools, and deployment practices; translate promising capabilities into Reddit’s AI strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities.
Set the vision and technical direction for applying AI to business problems across Reddit; partner with business leaders and AI Platform to prioritize opportunities and scale measurable value.
Mentor engineers and technical leads through design and code reviews, strengthening applied AI, system design, evals, and production judgment.
8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools.
~ Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment; Experience integrating APIs, data systems, enterprise tools, and workflow actions.
~ Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents, including tool use, orchestration, state, and failure handling; production LLM experience with retrieval, structured outputs, evals, monitoring, and controls.
~ Experience creating a component, engineering practice, or architectural pattern adopted beyond your own project.
~ Experience in applied AI, forward-deployed engineering, internal platforms, or enterprise workflow modernization.
Experience delivering business-critical workflows with auditability, sensitive data, or consequential automated actions.
Experience measuring workflow gains in quality, speed, capacity, or cost.
Experience driving AI adoption through user feedback, onboarding, and training.
Workspace benefits for your home office
~ Personal & Professional development funds
~ Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & LI-Remote
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
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