Senior AI Enablement Engineer: Deploy Real-World AI

Reddit, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k matching

Home office workspace

Professional development funds

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) to translate AI capabilities into practical solutions across Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance.

You will own engineering from discovery to production launch and adoption, delivering AI applications, agents, and automations that improve Reddit’s workflows and outcomes. You will collaborate with internal teams and the AI Platform to challenge existing processes, decide where AI adds value, and ship

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

5+ years

AI applications

Agent development

Production judgment

LLM retrieval

APIs integration

Tools

MCP integration

Cloud deployment

Observability tooling

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) to translate AI capabilities into practical solutions across Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance.

You will own engineering from discovery to production launch and adoption, delivering AI applications, agents, and automations that improve Reddit’s workflows and outcomes. You will collaborate with internal teams and the AI Platform to challenge existing processes, decide where AI adds value, and ship