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Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)

Cohere· Engineering & Infra
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RemoteKRW 230000k - KRW 315000kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role focused on designing, building, and deploying LLM-powered agentic workflows integrated with North, Cohere’s AI workspace platform, for enterprise customers in Korea. Bridge between core product and customers, with opportunities to work across frontend and backend, travel up to 20–40% for on-site customer work, and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, build, and delivery of LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools and data sources with enterprise-grade reliability and performance.
  • Balance rapid iteration with enterprise requirements, evolving prototypes into stable, reusable solutions.
  • Define and apply evaluation and quality standards to measure success, failures, and regressions; Debug real-world agent behavior and systematically improve prompts, workflows, tools, and guardrails.
  • Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform, working across the full product lifecycle from conceptualisation through production
  • Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, flexing into whatever technical area the problem demands (including frontend) to drive the most effective solution
  • Mentor engineers across distributed teams.
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous situations, build alignment, and raise engineering quality across the organization.
  • Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent delivery across customers.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to build, ship, and operate production-grade software systems.
  • Substantial hands-on experience designing, building, evaluating, and fine-tuning LLM-based agents in real-world applications.
  • Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, including models (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini), vector databases, RAG architectures, agent/orchestration frameworks, prompt engineering, tool use, multi-step agent workflows (e.g., ReAct), and robust failure handling.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience working directly with customers or stakeholders to design and deliver LLM-powered agentic solutions aligned with real business needs.
  • Proven technical leadership at the team level, including guiding architecture, implementation, and delivery of complex AI systems.

Skills

Required:LLM-based agent design and deploymentPythonJavaScript/TypeScript

Benefits

  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
  • Annual enrichment benefits: arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, workspace improvement credit; education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite.
  • $500 home office stipend to set up workspace.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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