Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

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 business and technical functions like Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. This is a senior technical leadership role with room to influence strategy, grow others, and build lasting capabilities.

• Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Set the vision and technical direction for applying AI to business problems across Reddit.
• Organize and sequence engineers' work, clarifying ownership, dependencies, and milestones.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads through design and code reviews.

• 8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment.
• 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, evals, 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.

• 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 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.

Base salary range: $194,600—$272,400 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units, and possibly commission. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, workspace benefits for home office, personal & professional development funds, family planning support, flexible vacation, Reddit Global Wellness Days, 4+ months paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.

Apply via the provided Greenhouse link.