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About the Role
About Reddit
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.
Role Overview
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 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.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Build AI applications, agents, skills, connectors, and workflow automations that solve business problems at Reddit.
- check_circle Translate ambiguous business problems into AI-native workflows and technical delivery plans.
- check_circle Work closely with internal functions, embedding where needed to understand their work and build trust with champions, builders, and subject matter experts.
- check_circle Understand function goals, jobs to be done, workflows, systems, data, and success measures.
- check_circle Prototype within days and productionize priority workflows within weeks when feasible.
- check_circle Integrate approved data, tools, APIs, and actions into safe end-to-end workflows.
- check_circle Define evals, review gates, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, and evidence.
- check_circle Launch trusted production workflows with governance, support, reversibility, and named owners.
- check_circle Transfer maintainable workflows to function owners and reduce long-term dependency on the team.
- check_circle Return repeated needs, blockers, and infrastructure requirements to the AI Platform Hub.
- check_circle Turn local wins into reusable agents, skills, templates, connectors, playbooks, and platform patterns.
- check_circle Stay current with advances in AI models, agents, tools, and deployment practices; translate promising capabilities into Reddit’s AI strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities.
- check_circle Set the vision and technical direction for applying AI to business problems across Reddit; partner with business leaders and AI Platform to prioritize opportunities and scale measurable value.
- check_circle Organize and sequence engineers’ work, clarifying ownership, dependencies, and milestones; build shared capabilities that improve delivery.
- check_circle Mentor engineers and technical leads through design and code reviews, strengthening applied AI, system design, evals, and production judgment.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 8+ years building software, including automations, workflows, AI applications, agents, or internal tools.
- check Strong software engineering fundamentals and production judgment; ability to work through ambiguous business and technical discovery.
- check Experience with MCP, reusable tool integrations, and enterprise identity and access patterns.
- check Experience integrating APIs, data systems, enterprise tools, and workflow actions.
- check 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.
- check Demonstrated technical leadership and product judgment through architecture decisions, reviews, mentoring, and influence across teams.
- check Ability to prioritize ambiguous opportunities and communicate technical, business, and operational tradeoffs.
- check Experience creating a component, engineering practice, or architectural pattern adopted beyond your own project.
- check Ability to build trust with business stakeholders and establish clear decisions, responsibilities, and success measures.
About Reddit Greenhouse Board
Verified hiring organization details.
Reddit Greenhouse Board serves as the hiring entity and recruitment portal for Reddit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Reddit is a prominent social media and technology platform that hosts a vast network of online communities where users can share content, news, and discussions on a wide variety of topics.