Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
$195K–$272K
Remote - United States · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of AI applications, agents, and workflow automations that improve business operations across Reddit.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and prioritize AI opportunities with business leaders and the AI Platform team.
- Lead engineers in building, evaluating, and launching governed production workflows, then transfer maintainable solutions to business owners.
- Mentor engineers and turn successful solutions into reusable capabilities and engineering practices.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment, including 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 and production LLM systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including architecture decisions, reviews, mentoring, and influence across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience in applied AI, forward-deployed engineering, internal platforms, or enterprise workflow modernization.
- Experience delivering auditable business-critical workflows or measuring workflow gains.
Pay
$194,600 — $272,400 USD (base salary)
Tools
MCP, APIs, LLM
AI focus
Builds AI applications, agents, and automations for business workflows; includes agent orchestration, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluations, monitoring, and controls.
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