Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

7d•$180,200 - $252,300•Remote

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will turn AI capabilities into practical solutions that improve how Reddit works across business and technical functions, including Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. You will identify valuable business problems and own engineering from discovery through production launch and adoption, with measurable impact on quality, speed, capacity, and cost. Working closely with internal business teams and the AI Platform team, you will challenge existing workflows, make product and technical decisions, and ship AI applications, agents, integrations, and automations that employees can rely on. You will write code, experiment quickly, and take responsibility for production quality. Your judgment will help determine where AI adds value, where conventional automation is better, and what should remain a human decision. Components and insights you contribute will help other teams solve similar problems.

Requirements

5+ years building software, including AI applications, agents, automations, or internal tools.
Strong engineering fundamentals and production judgment; ability to translate ambiguous business needs into solutions.
Hands-on agent development and deployment, including tool/API use, orchestration, state, and failure handling.
Enterprise integrations using MCP or comparable tool integration patterns.
Experience with LLM retrieval and structured outputs.
Reliable AI operations experience, including cloud deployment, access controls, observability, evals, failure analysis, and improvement.
Clear technical and non-technical communication; ability to explain tradeoffs and incorporate feedback.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise business systems, internal tools, or embedded delivery.
Experience creating reusable components or helping teams adopt new tools.
Experience redesigning business workflows and measuring gains in quality, speed, capacity, or cost.
Experience building user-facing AI tools and driving adoption through feedback, onboarding, and training.

Responsibilities

Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems and improve how Reddit works.
Translate ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows and technical delivery plans.
Work closely with internal functions, embedding where needed to understand their work and build trust with AI champions, builders, and subject matter experts.
Understand function goals, jobs to be done, current workflows, systems, data, and measures of success.
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 evals, 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.
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.