Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is hiring a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to define and deliver applied AI solutions for business problems across the company. The role sets technical direction, builds production AI applications and workflow automations, partners with business functions and the AI Platform team, and mentors engineers while developing reusable capabilities.
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
- 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
Skills
- 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 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units
- Depending on the position offered, commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation, and parental leave
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