Reddit - Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
Requirements
• 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. • 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.
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.
Benefits
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits • Workspace benefits for your home office • Personal & Professional development funds • Family Planning Support • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days • 4+ months paid Parental Leave • Paid Volunteer time off • Pay Transparency: • Pay Transparency: • This job posting may span more than one career level. • In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/. • To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. • The base salary range for this position is: • $180,200—$252,300 USD • In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. • During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.
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