AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. We're looking for a Revenue Growth & Strategy Partner to solve some of Reddit's highest-priority commercial opportunities. As a strategic advisor to Reddit's senior Sales leadership, you'll help shape commercial strategy through analytical rigor and first-principles thinking, then translate those priorities into scalable operating models that improve seller effectiveness, drive advertiser outcomes, and accelerate revenue growth. Your initial focus will be leading two of our most strategic initiatives – Sales Compass and the Sales Operating System (see Example Projects below). As our business evolves, you'll have the opportunity to tackle new, high-impact org-wide commercial challenges. We're looking for a high-caliber strategy generalist rather than a domain specialist. The ideal candidate combines structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and strong execution, and is equally comfortable advising senior leaders, working with complex data, designing scalable operating models, and leading ambiguous cross-functional initiatives. We care far more about intellectual curiosity, structured thinking, and learning agility than prior experience in incentives or seller operating systems – the domain can be learned; the ability to solve complex business problems cannot. This role sits at the intersection of sales, strategy, analytics, and operations, with direct exposure to senior leadership. Location: Fully remote work allowed, but must be located within 50 miles of a Reddit hub city in North America or Europe (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Berlin). Example projects: You'll lead the design, build, and launch of Reddit's highest-priority commercial initiatives. Your role is to take ambiguous, early-stage ideas from concept to scalable operating models – establishing the strategy, processes, governance, and measurement frameworks needed for long-term success before transitioning ownership to dedicated program managers and moving on to the next strategic opportunity. * Sales Compass: Transform an early-stage seller incentives framework into a scalable operating model that drives consistent seller behavior at scale. Translate Reddit-wide commercial priorities into measurable seller behaviors, performance metrics, and incentives, building personalized goals and scorecards that align individual performance with company objectives while accounting for differences across books of business, customer segments, and market opportunities. * Sales operating system: Design and scale Reddit's seller operating system by building the workflows, playbooks, and guidance that help sellers consistently identify the highest-impact actions for every advertiser. Create a scalable operating model that simplifies complex sales motions into clear, repeatable execution paths, enabling sellers to leverage the right resources, programs, and best practices at the right time to maximize customer outcomes and revenue growth. * Future strategic projects: Partner with senior sales leadership to identify and solve emerging commercial opportunities. Lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives from strategy through execution, building scalable solutions that improve how Reddit goes to market and drive long-term business growth. Core responsibilities: * Strategic advisor to sales leadership: Serve as a trusted thought partner to Sales Leadership, advising on Reddit's highest-priority commercial opportunities and challenges. Apply data-driven insights and first-principles thinking to evaluate complex business questions, identify the highest-leverage opportunities, and develop strategic recommendations that shape commercial priorities, influence executive decision-making, and drive long-term revenue growth. * Translate strategy into execution: Design and evolve the operating models, governance, and execution frameworks that bridge strategy and execution. Translate company priorities into scalable ways of working that align seller behavior, enable consistent execution, and drive measurable business outcomes across the sales organization. * Cross-functional leadership: Build alignment across Sales, Revenue Strategy & Operations, Enablement, Product, Finance, and other cross-functional teams, mobilizing stakeholders to deliver scalable commercial solutions and advance Reddit's highest-priority strategic initiatives. * Measurement rigor and change management: Establish success metrics and performance frameworks that measure business impact and seller effectiveness. Continuously refine operating models through data, experimentation, and stakeholder feedback while partnering with Sales Leadership and Enablement to drive adoption of new ways of working and improve sales performance. Qualifications: * 4+ years in Strategy & Operations, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Management Consulting, Product Strategy. * Advanced proficiency in data manipulation (e.g., Google Sheets/Excel) with the ability to navigate large datasets independently to uncover insights and build executive-level data narratives. * Comfort with data infrastructure with the ability to interpret basic SQL or leverage modern AI development tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Codex) to prompt and generate queries. * Proven track record of leading high-impact, cross-functional strategic initiatives that drive measurable business outcomes. * Experience partnering with senior leadership to solve complex business problems and influence strategic decision-making. * Demonstrated ability to translate executive strategy into scalable operating models, organizational frameworks, or business processes that drive execution at scale. * Excellent program management and stakeholder management skills, with experience leading initiatives across multiple cross-functional teams from strategy through execution. * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear recommendations for executive audiences. * Strong commercial judgment, with a deep understanding of how organizational design, seller behavior, and operational improvements translate into customer outcomes and revenue growth. * Bachelor's degree required. Benefits:  * Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs * 401k with Employer Match * Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off * Generous Paid Parental Leave   In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Databricks

FEQ227R195 Mission The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly.  The impact you will have: * Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI research to solve customer problems * Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications * Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains * Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally * Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap  What we look for: * Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy * Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations  * Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools, i.e. pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc. * Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP * Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience * Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike * Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through AI * [Preferred] Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark™ to process large-scale distributed datasets * We require fluency in English and have a preference for candidates who also speak Mandarin About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Databricks

CSQ227R47 The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly. Open to remote locations. The impact you will have: * Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI Research to solve customer problems * Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications * Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains * Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally * Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap What we look for: * Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy * Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations  * Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools, i.e. pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc. * Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP * Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience * Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike * Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through AI * [Preferred] Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark™ to process large-scale distributed datasets About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.