Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
Reddit · Remote - United States
About this role
**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 ~130M daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. As a **Lead Forward Deployed Engineer**, you’ll own the vision for how applied AI solves business problems at Reddit. You’ll 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 across the company. Your impact will come from the business problems you help Reddit solve and the teams you make more effective. --- ### 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. - 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. ### Additional Lead Responsibilities - Stay current with advances in AI models, agents, tools, and deployment practices; translate 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; partner with business leaders and AI Platform to prioritize opportunities and scale measurable value. - Organize and sequence engineers’ work, 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, evals, and production judgment. --- ### Required Qualifications - **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 business and technical discovery. - Experience with **MCP**, reusable tool integrations, and enterprise identity/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 through architecture decision
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