# Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Enablement) at Reddit

- Company: Reddit
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.redditinc.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8301736?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/reddit-lead-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-enablement/

## 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

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Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/reddit-lead-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-enablement/