AI Enablement Lead - Forward-Deployed Engineer

Reddit; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

401k Matching

Home office workspace

Professional development funds

Parental leave

Flexible vacation

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) to shape how applied AI solves business problems across Sales, Marketing, and Finance. You will own the vision, set technical direction, and deliver production capabilities that scale with Reddit’s needs while mentoring teams and maintaining governance.

You’ll drive AI-enabled workflows, build reusable patterns, and partner with the AI Platform team to turn strategic ideas into tangible, trustable solutions across functions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents, including tool use and retrieval.

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.
• Lead delivery: organize work, mentor engineers, and establish architecture and engineering practices.
• Define evals, gates, observability, and governance for production workflows.
• Transfer maintainable workflows to function owners and reduce long-term dependency.

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) to shape how applied AI solves business problems across Sales, Marketing, and Finance. You will own the vision, set technical direction, and deliver production capabilities that scale with Reddit’s needs while mentoring teams and maintaining governance.

You’ll drive AI-enabled workflows, build reusable patterns, and partner with the AI Platform team to turn strategic ideas into tangible, trustable solutions across functions.