AI Enablement Lead, Forward-Deployed Engineer

Reddit, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 195,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for your home офисe

Personal & Professional development

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation

4+ months paid Parental Leave

Paid Volunteer time off

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to shape AI-enabled workflows across Reddit, partnering with Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance.

You’ll own the vision, define priorities, and deliver production-ready AI solutions while mentoring engineers and driving architecture practice. You will translate business problems into AI-native workflows, organize teams, and ensure governance, observability, and measurable value across units.

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Own vision for applied AI solving Reddit's business problems.
• Define priorities and guide investments in AI applications.
• Lead and mentor engineers and technical leads.
• Organize work, establish architecture, and ensure reliable delivery.

Skills

Software engineering

Production judgment

AI agents

APIs integration

Enterprise tools

Architecture leadership

Stakeholder trust

Ambiguity prioritization

Tools

MCP

APIs usage

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to shape AI-enabled workflows across Reddit, partnering with Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance.

You’ll own the vision, define priorities, and deliver production-ready AI solutions while mentoring engineers and driving architecture practice. You will translate business problems into AI-native workflows, organize teams, and ensure governance, observability, and measurable value across units.