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

















