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Principal UX Engineer, Ads
Reddit INC · 🇺🇸 Remote - United States · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 66 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 40 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Reddit INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “UX Engineer III (Prototyping)” (Web and Digital Interface Designers) in NY: $178k–$178k, median $178k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 66 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 40 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit’s Ads Design & Research team shapes the end-to-end advertising experience across advertiser tools, consumer ad experiences, measurement, and the systems that connect them. We’re looking for a Principal UX Engineer who sees code as a product-design medium: a way to make ideas tangible, connect prototypes to real systems and data, and help teams move from exploration to engineering-ready product direction faster. This is a strategic, hands-on role at the intersection of design and engineering. You’ll work across Reddit Ads to shape product direction, build production-adjacent prototypes and tools, and help establish UX Engineering as a capability for the Ads Design team. You’ll partner closely with Design, Research, Product, Engineering, and Data Science while staying deeply involved in the craft. What You’ll Do • Define and lead the UX Engineering strategy across multiple areas of Reddit Ads. • Build high-quality functional prototypes, workflow tools, agents, and PR-ready product experiences that help teams explore ideas, test assumptions, and move faster from design intent to engineering review. • Partner with senior cross-functional leaders to shape product direction and bring clarity to complex, ambiguous opportunities. • Create reusable tools, systems, components, and workflows that make it easier to move from design and research into production. • Raise the bar for interaction quality, accessibility, performance, and technical craft across the Ads experience. • Build AI-native workflows, skills, agents, and tools that improve how Ads Design explores, prototypes, collaborates, and ships. • Mentor other practitioners and help grow UX Engineering as a capability across Reddit. What We’re Looking For • Deep experience at the intersection of product design and engineering, with a track record of building sophisticated interactive products. • Strong hands-on expertise with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript. • Experience building production-adjacent prototypes, internal tools, systems, or frontend infrastructure that other designers and engineers can use. • Excellent product and interaction judgment, with the ability to turn complex ideas into intuitive, high-quality experiences. • Experience working across multiple teams or product areas and influencing product direction beyond a single project. • Strong systems thinking, with experience creating reusable patterns, platforms, or tools that help other teams move faster. • Fluency with AI-assisted coding, agents, and advanced prototyping workflows. • The ability to navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and bring design, engineering, product, and research perspectives together. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly with senior cross-functional partners. • A portfolio or body of work that shows use cases, technical architecture, systems thinking, organizational complexity, and collaboration with engineering teams, not only polished UI outcomes. • A passion for staying hands-on while helping others do their best work. Experience in advertising is helpful, but it isn’t required. We’re also interested in people who have worked on complex products such as marketplaces, enterprise tools, analytics, commerce, developer platforms, AI-powered experiences, or ot