Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

7d•$194,600 - $272,400•Remote

About The Position

As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the vision for applying AI to business problems at Reddit. You will identify high-value opportunities, set technical direction, and deliver production capabilities that improve work across business and technical functions, including Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. Working with business leaders and the AI Platform team, you will define priorities, challenge assumptions about current workflows, and guide investment in AI applications, agents, and automations that measurably improve quality, speed, capacity, or cost. This senior technical leadership role includes shaping a growing engineering practice, influencing strategy, mentoring others, and building lasting capabilities across the company. You will organize and guide engineers’ work while remaining hands-on in consequential projects. You will establish architecture and engineering practices that help teams ship reliable solutions, and turn lessons from delivery into shared capabilities that other teams can adopt.

Requirements

8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment, with the ability to work through ambiguous business and technical discovery.
Experience with MCP, reusable tool integrations, and enterprise identity and access patterns.
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, evaluations, monitoring, and controls.
Demonstrated technical leadership and product judgment through architecture decisions, reviews, mentoring, and influence across teams.
Ability to prioritize ambiguous opportunities and communicate technical, business, and operational tradeoffs.
Experience creating a component, engineering practice, or architectural pattern adopted beyond your own project.
Ability to build trust with business stakeholders and establish clear decisions, responsibilities, and success measures.

Nice To Haves

Experience in applied AI, forward-deployed engineering, internal platforms, or enterprise workflow modernization.
Experience improving engineering practices across a team or multiple teams.
Experience delivering business-critical workflows involving 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.

Responsibilities

Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations to solve business problems at Reddit.
Translate ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows and technical delivery plans.
Work closely with internal functions, embedding as needed to understand their work and build trust with champions, builders, and subject matter experts.
Understand function goals, jobs to be done, workflows, systems, data, and success measures.
Prototype within days and productionize priority workflows within weeks when feasible.
Integrate approved data, tools, APIs, and actions into safe end-to-end workflows.
Define evaluations, review gates, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, and evidence.
Launch trusted production workflows with governance, support, reversibility, and named owners.
Transfer maintainable workflows to function owners and reduce long-term dependency on the team.
Bring 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, translating 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, partnering with business leaders and AI Platform to prioritize opportunities and scale measurable value.
Organize and sequence engineers’ work by clarifying ownership, dependencies, and milestones; build shared capabilities that improve delivery.
Mentor engineers and technical leads through design and code reviews, strengthening applied AI, system design, evaluations, and production judgment.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
401(k) matching.
Workspace benefits for your home office.
Personal and professional development funds.
Family planning support.
Flexible vacation and Reddit Global Wellness Days.
4+ months of paid parental leave.
Paid volunteer time off.
Equity in the form of restricted stock units; depending on the position offered, the role may also be eligible for commission.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for U.S.-based employees.