Build AI applications and automations to enhance business functions at Reddit as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer.
Posted by employer 9 hours ago
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Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations
- Translate ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows
- Prototype within days and productionize priority workflows
- Integrate approved data, tools, APIs, and actions into workflows
- Launch trusted production workflows with governance
Must have
- 5+ years building software
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- Hands-on agent development and deployment
- Enterprise integrations using MCP or comparable tools
- Reliable AI operations
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise business systems
- Experience creating reusable components
- Experience redesigning business workflows
- Experience building user-facing AI tools
AI in the day-to-day
You will turn AI capabilities into practical solutions that improve how Reddit works across various business functions.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Reddit, the individual will focus on transforming AI capabilities into practical solutions that enhance various business functions, including Sales and Marketing. Key skills include software development, particularly in AI applications, and experience with enterprise integrations and cloud deployment. This position is suited for someone with over five years of relevant experience who can navigate both technical and non-technical communication effectively. The role emphasizes collaboration with internal teams to build trust and ensure the successful implementation of AI-driven workflows.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 20, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 20, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
- Starts above 50% of 134 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $180,100 across 53 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
- AI/ML appears in 41.9% of 544 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $180,200–$252,300 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI applications, AI/ML, Automations, cloud deployment, enterprise integrations, internal tools.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) role at Reddit.
From the original posting
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
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.
This is an opportunity to build close to the people who use your work. Working with internal business teams and the AI Platform team, you will challenge existing workflows, make product and technical decisions, and ship AI applications, agents, integrations, and automations that employees can rely on.
You will write code, experiment quickly, and take responsibility for production quality. Your judgment will shape where AI adds value, where conventional automation is better, and what should remain a human decision. The components and insights you contribute will help other teams solve similar problems.
You will have room to own meaningful work, deepen your applied AI expertise, and see the results of what you build across Reddit.
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 (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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