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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

Reddit· Ads Product & Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote United States)$180.2k - $252.3kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for turning AI capabilities into practical solutions across Reddit’s business and technical functions. Owns engineering from discovery to production launch and adoption, delivering AI applications, agents, integrations, and automations with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems and improve how Reddit works.
  • 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.
  • Understand function goals, jobs to be done, current workflows, systems, data, and measures of success.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years building software, including AI applications, agents, automations, or internal tools.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and production judgment; translates ambiguous business needs into solutions.
  • 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; explains tradeoffs and incorporates feedback.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringAgent development and deploymentLLM retrieval and structured outputs

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
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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