Software Engineer, Agent Optimization – Evaluation

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Software Engineer building Reddit’s agent optimization and evaluation platform. Developing AI-agent benchmarking, orchestration, and feedback systems for software engineering workflows.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead Reddit's agent optimization and evaluation platform
  • Design and build an agent optimization harness for evaluating, benchmarking, and improving AI agents across software engineering workflows
  • Develop Reddit-specific evaluation environments for measuring agent performance against meaningful engineering tasks
  • Build systems for offline replay, automated evaluation, synthetic task generation, regression detection, and human-in-the-loop feedback
  • Design model routing and orchestration strategies optimizing quality, latency, and cost
  • Define metrics and experimentation frameworks measuring developer productivity and engineering velocity
  • Build tooling to analyze agent behavior, investigate failures, and accelerate iteration
  • Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Developer Productivity teams
  • Shape Reddit's long-term strategy for a flexible, model-agnostic agent platform

Requirements:

  • 5-12+ years of engineering experience
  • Extensive experience building and shipping large-scale production software systems
  • Experience designing evaluation, experimentation, benchmarking, or measurement systems for AI, search, developer platforms, or other complex distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of modern LLMs, AI agents, and the engineering systems required to deploy them effectively
  • Experience building systems that optimize across quality, latency, reliability, and cost
  • Excellent software engineering fundamentals
  • Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and drive technical direction for highly strategic initiatives
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and experience working across engineering, infrastructure, and platform organizations

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
  • Equity in the form of restricted stock units
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible vacation and generous time off for vacation
  • Parental leave