# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,200-$252,300 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will turn AI capabilities into practical solutions that improve how Reddit works across business and technical functions like Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. You will identify valuable business problems and own the engineering from discovery through production launch and adoption, with measurable impact on quality, speed, capacity, and cost.

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.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with enterprise business systems, internal tools, or embedded delivery.

- Experience creating reusable components or helping teams adopt new tools.

- Experience redesigning business workflows and measuring gains in quality, speed, capacity, or cost.

- Experience building user-facing AI tools and driving adoption through feedback, onboarding, and training.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

- 401k Matching

- Workspace benefits for your home office

- Personal & Professional development funds

- Family Planning Support

- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days

- 4+ months paid Parental Leave

- Paid Volunteer time off

## Skills

### Required
- AI applications
- agent development
- deployment
- enterprise integrations
- LLM retrieval
- structured outputs
- cloud deployment
- access controls
- observability
- evals
- failure analysis
- improvement

### Nice to have
- enterprise business systems
- internal tools
- embedded delivery
- reusable components
- business workflow redesign
- user-facing AI tools

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