Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
Remote - United States · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$195k-$272kDetected 12 hours ago
Code ReviewLLMsAgentic AILLMOpsBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipMentoring
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61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems at Reddit.
- Work closely with internal functions, embedding where needed to understand their work and build trust with champions, builders, and subject matter experts.
- Launch trusted production workflows with governance, support, reversibility, and named owners.
- Additional Lead Responsibilities
- 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.
- Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement)
- This is a senior technical leadership role with room to influence strategy, grow others, and build lasting capabilities across the company.
- Family Planning Support
Requirements
- 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.
- production LLM experience with retrieval, structured outputs, evals, monitoring, and controls.
- Ability to prioritize ambiguous opportunities and communicate technical, business, and operational tradeoffs.
- 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.
Compensation
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
- 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.
Company info
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
This listing is sourced directly from Reddit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.