Senior AI Enablement Engineer - Forward-Deployed Leader

United States

Remote

USD 195,000 - 272,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for home office

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation

Reddit Global Wellness Days

Paid Volunteer time off

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own the vision for applying AI to business problems at Reddit. You will set technical direction and lead delivery of AI-native workflows that empower Sales, Marketing, Finance, and other functions.

You will mentor engineers, define governance and architecture, and ship end-to-end production capabilities while staying hands-on on the most impactful work. This senior role shapes Reddit's AI future.

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

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.
Work closely with internal functions, embedding where needed to understand their work and build trust with champions, builders, and subject matter experts.
Understand function goals, jobs to be done, workflows, systems, data, and success measures.
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.
Stay current with advances in AI models, agents, tools, and deployment practices; translate promising capabilities into Reddit’s AI strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities.
Set the vision and technical direction for applying AI to business problems across Reddit; partner with business leaders and AI Platform to prioritize opportunities and scale measurable value.
Organize and sequence engineers’ work, clarifying ownership, dependencies, and milestones; build shared capabilities that improve delivery.
Mentor engineers and technical leads through design and code reviews, strengthening applied AI, system design, evals, and production judgment.