Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)
Cohere · Remote · Korea ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Fully remote (Korea)
- English + Korean required
- LLM Agent Development
- Travel up to 40%
Join Cohere as a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge the gap between the North AI workspace platform and enterprise customers. You will design, build, and deploy reliable agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models to solve complex business problems in sectors like finance and healthcare.
This position demands strong technical leadership and customer-facing skills. You will translate ambiguous business needs into production-grade AI solutions, ensuring they are secure, observable, and auditable while mentoring distributed engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Translate business problems into agentic workflows with clear success criteria
- Lead design and delivery of LLM-powered agents for enterprise use
- Evolve prototypes into stable, reusable production solutions
- Debug agent behavior and improve prompts, tools, and guardrails
- Build features for the North platform across the full product lifecycle
- Mentor engineers and drive alignment in ambiguous situations
- Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers
What you'll need
- Proven ability to ship and operate production-grade software systems
- Hands-on experience building and fine-tuning LLM-based agents
- Deep knowledge of LLM ecosystems, RAG, and orchestration frameworks
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience delivering AI solutions directly to customers or stakeholders
- Technical leadership experience guiding complex AI system architecture
- Fluency in both English and Korean languages
Nice to have
- Experience setting architectural standards for AI systems
- Ability to work in unfamiliar areas like frontend development
- Exposure to regulated industries such as finance or healthcare
- Knowledge of enterprise security and compliance requirements for AI
Stack
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- LLMs
- RAG
- Vector Databases
How you'll work
- Remote-friendly with offices in Seoul and other global cities
- Co-working benefit available for those not near an office
- $500 home office stipend provided
- Travel up to 20–40% required for client engagements
What you get
- Weekly lunch stipend equivalent to $75
- Full health and dental benefits including mental health budget
- Retirement savings matching (RRSP, 401K, Pension)
- 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
- 6 weeks of paid vacation annually
- Annual enrichment and education stipends
- Budget for traveling to other offices and annual offsite