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About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment, 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
- Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents, including tool use, orchestration, state, and failure handling, production LLM experience with retrieval, structured outputs, evals, monitoring, and controls
- Demonstrated technical leadership and product judgment through architecture decisions, reviews, mentoring, and influence across teams
More about this role
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 .
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...
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