Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)

Korea · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 2026

At a glance

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how enterprises harness the power of AI in real-world applications.
As a bridge between the core North product and client engineering teams, you will solve complex problems and securely integrate AI into critical sectors such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Work closely with enterprise customers to translate high-value, ambiguous business problems into well-framed agentic problems with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
Provide technical leadership across the full development and evaluation lifecycle, including post-deployment iteration, for agentic workflows.
Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners.
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, the 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 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.

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.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Fluency in English and Korean language.

Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams.
Experience flexing into unfamiliar technical areas, such as frontend, when the problem calls for it.
Exposure to regulated or sensitive industry environments (finance, healthcare, telecoms).
Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems.

A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
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 including arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a 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 you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
Co-working benefit for those not near an office
$500 home office stipend