Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to open and authentic conversations, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will turn AI capabilities into practical solutions that improve how Reddit works across business and technical functions like 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. You will work with internal business teams and the AI Platform team to challenge existing workflows, make product and technical decisions, and ship AI applications, agents, integrations, and automations. You will write code, experiment quickly, and take responsibility for production quality.

• 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 with AI champions, builders, and subject matter experts.
• 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.

• 5+ years building software, including AI applications, agents, automations, or internal tools.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and production judgment.
• 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: cloud deployment, access controls, observability, evals, failure analysis, and improvement.
• Clear technical and non-technical communication.

• 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.
• Experience building user-facing AI tools and driving adoption.

Base salary range: $180,200—$252,300 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 job link.