[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Reddit logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/10/Reddit.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md)[Reddit](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md) # Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) AI Summary Reddit is seeking a senior technical leader to identify high-value AI opportunities and deliver production-grade AI workflows across internal business functions. The role combines hands-on engineering with architecture, technical strategy, mentoring, and cross-functional stakeholder partnership. Key work includes building AI agents, integrations, workflow automations, evaluation systems, governance controls, and reusable platform patterns. The engineer will translate ambiguous business needs into measurable improvements in speed, quality, capacity, and cost while enabling teams to own the solutions over time.[Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 194,600–272,400 / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished5 Nov 2026Apply before5 Dec 2026Listing views28Application actions2Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. Opportunity details ## About this role. 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. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [www.redditinc.com](http://www.redditinc.com/). Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the vision for how applied AI solves business problems at Reddit. You will identify where AI can create the most value, set technical direction, and turn that vision into production capabilities that improve how the company works across its business and technical functions like Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance. This is an opportunity to shape a growing engineering practice with impact across Reddit. Working with business leaders and the AI Platform team, you will define priorities, challenge assumptions about existing workflows, and guide investments in AI applications, agents, and automations. Your decisions will connect emerging AI capabilities to measurable improvements in quality, speed, capacity, and cost. This is a senior technical leadership role with room to influence strategy, grow others, and build lasting capabilities across the company. Your impact will come from the business problems you help Reddit solve and the teams you make more effective. You will also lead through delivery: organizing the work of engineers, mentoring engineers and technical leads, and establishing the architecture and engineering practices that help teams ship reliable solutions. You will remain hands-on in the most consequential work, using what you build and learn to shape shared capabilities that other teams can adopt. 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. Additional Lead Responsibilities * 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. Required 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. Preferred Qualifications * Experience in applied AI, forward-deployed engineering, internal platforms, or enterprise workflow modernization. * Experience improving engineering practices across a team or multiple teams. * Experience delivering business-critical workflows with auditability, sensitive data, or consequential automated actions. * Experience measuring workflow gains in quality, speed, capacity, or cost. * Experience driving AI adoption through user 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 #LI-Remote 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/](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. 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This job listing has been manually reviewed by the Jobicy Trust & Safety Team for compliance with our posting guidelines, including verification of the company's legitimacy, accuracy of job details, clarity of remote work policy, and absence of misleading or fraudulent content. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a lead-level applied AI role requiring 8+ years of software engineering experience, production LLM and agent expertise, and technical leadership across ambiguous business domains. The position demands rapid prototyping alongside reliable, governed production delivery and significant influence without relying solely on formal authority. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$233,500US market range (per year)$200k–$290k0$319k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a base-pay range of $194,600–$272,400 USD. The posting does not explicitly state the cadence, but yearly pay is inferred from the range, the U.S. location, and senior full-time software-engineering compensation conventions. The midpoint is $233,500 per year; the estimated U.S. market range for comparable lead applied-AI engineering roles is $200,000–$290,000 per year, excluding equity and commission. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Applied AI](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Applied%20AI.md)[LLM applications](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=LLM%20applications.md)[AI agents](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AI%20agents.md)[Workflow automation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Workflow%20automation.md)[API integration](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=API%20integration.md)[Model Context Protocol](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Model%20Context%20Protocol.md)[Retrieval-augmented generation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Retrieval-augmented%20generation.md)[LLM evaluation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=LLM%20evaluation.md)[Observability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Observability.md)[Enterprise identity and access management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Enterprise%20identity%20and%20access%20management.md)[System architecture](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=System%20architecture.md)[Technical leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20leadership.md)[Stakeholder management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Stakeholder%20management.md)[Mentoring](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Mentoring.md)[Production engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Production%20engineering.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you identify and prioritize an internal AI workflow opportunity at Reddit?I would begin with business discovery: clarify the job to be done, current workflow, data sources, risks, baseline metrics, and accountable owner. I would prioritize opportunities by expected impact, feasibility, data readiness, safety requirements, adoption likelihood, and the potential to create reusable platform capabilities. Describe how you would take an LLM agent from prototype to a trusted production workflow. I would first validate the user need with a narrow prototype, then define structured inputs and outputs, tool permissions, failure modes, evaluation datasets, and success thresholds. Before launch, I would add observability, human review gates where appropriate, auditability, rollback paths, ownership, and operational documentation. What role do evaluations play in an AI-agent system? Evaluations make quality measurable and enable safe iteration. I would combine offline task-specific test sets, adversarial and edge-case testing, tool-call correctness checks, latency and cost measurements, and production monitoring tied to user feedback and business outcomes. How would you design integrations for agents that act on sensitive enterprise systems? I would apply least-privilege access, scoped credentials, explicit authorization checks, allowlisted actions, structured tool interfaces, and detailed audit logs. For consequential actions, I would require confirmation or human approval, make operations reversible when possible, and monitor for anomalous behavior. How do you lead engineers while remaining hands-on in a fast-moving technical area? I set clear outcomes, ownership boundaries, architectural principles, and delivery milestones while using design and code reviews to raise quality. I stay directly involved in the highest-risk technical decisions, unblock teams through prototypes and shared patterns, and coach engineers to independently make sound production tradeoffs. Next step ## Apply now. Follow the employer’s application method and review Jobicy’s safety guidance before sharing personal information. 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