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Forward Deployed Engineer, Korea Founding Team

Full-time🇰🇷 Seoul

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Job Title

Forward Deployed Engineer, Korea

Salary

Industry-leading cash compensation plus a founding-member equity package

Location

Seoul, South Korea, on-site.

Company Description

The client is an enterprise AI company founded in 2025. In September 2026 it raised a $550M Series C led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce joining as a new investor, at a $5B valuation. Total funding is over $800M, and the company has grown to more than 35 markets and about 650 people.

Its product started as customer-facing AI agents and has grown into an open, model-agnostic AI operating system that connects agents, workflows, AI-native applications, enterprise context, integrations, and governance. Local teams automate real operations end to end with enterprise customers, take the first use case to production, and hand the capability over so the customer can keep expanding on its own.

Forward Deployed Engineering is the model Palantir built and OpenAI and Anthropic now use: the engineer who embeds with enterprise customers and solves their hardest problems directly in code. The client is hiring the engineers who open the Korean market from the front line.

What You'll Do

  • Go inside customer companies, map how their operations actually run, and define the problem.
  • Design the agent architecture from the customer's requirements and build a working prototype fast.
  • Connect LLMs, the customer's internal data, and external APIs into a system that runs real work.
  • Integrate with the infrastructure the customer already has: CRM, ERP, contact center, and messaging.
  • Debug what breaks inside the customer's environment, and keep improving performance and reliability.
  • Optimize against business KPIs such as response rate, conversion, and handling time, not only model metrics.

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of hands-on software engineering, with backend or systems work in Python or TypeScript.
  • Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases, and cloud environments.
  • Working knowledge of LLMs, AI agents, or automation systems.
  • You have built prototypes fast under uncertainty and kept improving them.
  • Native or advanced business Korean for Korean enterprise customers, and English for working with the global team.

Nice to Have

  • Customer-facing engineering as a Solutions Engineer, FDE, or Consulting Engineer.
  • Complex system integration: CRM, ERP, or data pipelines.
  • Voice, contact center, or telephony systems: Twilio, SIP, STT/TTS.
  • LLM services in production: prompting, tool use, RAG.
  • Fast execution at a startup or on an early product.

Why Join

  • You are measured on real business impact, not model scores.
  • You own the whole path: problem definition, design, build, and operation.
  • The Korea team is early. What you build in the first year sets the direction here.

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