Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)

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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 .

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.

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