Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
Senior technical lead role at Reddit owning applied-AI strategy and delivery: building and productionizing AI applications, agents, and workflow automations for internal business functions (Sales, Marketing, BD, Finance), while mentoring engineers and setting technical direction. Core work spans LLM agents, MCP/tool integrations, API/data integrations, and evals/governance.
- Compensation
- $194.6K–$272.4K / yr
- Location
- Remote - United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment; ability to work through ambiguous 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 (tool use, orchestration, state, failure handling)
- Production LLM experience with retrieval, structured outputs, evals, monitoring, and controls
- Demonstrated technical leadership and product judgment via architecture decisions, reviews, mentoring, and cross-team influence
- 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 have
- 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
Full description
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. 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. For more information, visit .
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.
This is a senior technical leadership role with room to influence strategy, grow others, and build lasting capabilities across the company. 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. You will remain hands-on in the most consequential work, using what you build and learn to shape shared capabilities that other teams can adopt.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Work closely with internal functions, embedding where 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 evals, review gates, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, and evidence.
- Launch trusted production workflows with governance, support, reversibility, and named owners.