Senior AI Enablement Engineer — Deploy & Impact

Reddit; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for your home offe

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer focused on AI Enablement to turn AI capabilities into practical solutions across Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. You will own engineering from discovery to production, building AI apps, agents, and automations that solve real business problems.

You will collaborate with the AI Platform and internal teams, defining safe end-to-end workflows with governance, observability, and clear owners.

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.

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.

Skills

Agent development

Tool integration

LLM retrieval

Production deployment

Cloud deployment

Communication

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer focused on AI Enablement to turn AI capabilities into practical solutions across Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. You will own engineering from discovery to production, building AI apps, agents, and automations that solve real business problems.

You will collaborate with the AI Platform and internal teams, defining safe end-to-end workflows with governance, observability, and clear owners.