Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
$180K–$252K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building software.
About the job
Build and deploy production AI applications and workflow automations that improve internal business functions at Reddit.
What you'll do
- Identify business needs and deliver AI workflows from discovery and prototyping through production launch, adoption, and handoff.
- Integrate approved data, tools, APIs, and actions; establish evaluations, human review, observability, and governance.
- Turn successful solutions into reusable components and share recurring needs with the AI Platform Hub.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building software, including AI applications, agents, automations, or internal tools.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and production judgment; ability to translate 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 patterns.
- Experience with LLM retrieval and structured outputs, and reliable AI operations including cloud deployment, access controls, observability, and evals.
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise business systems, internal tools, or embedded delivery.
- Experience creating reusable components, redesigning business workflows, or building user-facing AI tools and driving adoption.
Pay
$180,200 — $252,300 USD base salary
Tools
MCP
AI focus
Build and deploy AI applications, agents, integrations, and automations for internal business workflows; evaluate their effectiveness and reliability, with human controls and governance.
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