Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Own the vision for applied AI solving business problems at Reddit, building production capabilities for Sales, Marketing, Finance, and other functions.
Role type
Senior technical leadership (Lead Forward Deployed Engineer)
Builds
AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations for internal business functions
Domain
Internet / Applied AI / Enterprise Workflow Automation
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software engineering fundamentals, AI agent orchestration, LLM integration, API/data system integration, technical leadership, product judgment, architecture design, mentoring
Preferred skills
Forward-deployed engineering, engineering practice improvement, business-critical workflow delivery, AI adoption training
Technologies
MCP, enterprise identity and access patterns, LLMs, retrieval, structured outputs, evals, monitoring
Responsibilities
Translate ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows; prototype and productionize workflows; integrate data/tools/APIs; define evals and governance; mentor engineers; set technical direction and roadmap
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership
