Reddit

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

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5 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $252k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations for business problems.
  • Translate ambiguous business needs into AI-native workflows and technical delivery plans.
  • Embed with internal functions to understand workflows, systems, data, and success measures.
  • Prototype rapidly and productionize priority workflows.
  • Integrate approved data, tools, APIs, and actions into safe end-to-end workflows.
  • Define evaluations, 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 team dependency.
  • Feed repeated needs and infrastructure requirements back to the AI Platform Hub.
  • Create reusable agents, skills, templates, connectors, playbooks, and platform patterns.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building software, including AI applications, agents, automations, or internal tools.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and production judgment, with the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into solutions.
  • Hands-on agent development and deployment experience, including tool and API use, orchestration, state, and failure handling.
  • Experience with enterprise integrations using MCP or comparable tool integration patterns.
  • Experience with LLM retrieval and structured outputs.
  • Experience with reliable AI operations, including cloud deployment, access controls, observability, evaluations, failure analysis, and improvement.
  • Clear technical and non-technical communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience with enterprise business systems, internal tools, embedded delivery, reusable components, workflow redesign, user-facing AI tools, adoption, onboarding, or training.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Workspace benefits for a home office.
  • Personal and professional development funds.
  • Family planning support.
  • Flexible vacation and Reddit Global Wellness Days.
  • 4+ months of paid parental leave.
  • Paid volunteer time off.
  • Remote role, as indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Reddit

About Reddit

5,001-10,000 employees

Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.

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