Cohere

Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)

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Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior

Responsibilities

  • Translate ambiguous enterprise customer problems into well-defined agentic problems with success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
  • Lead the design, development, evaluation, deployment, and post-deployment iteration of LLM-powered agentic workflows.
  • Build reliable, observable, safe, auditable, and performant AI agents that work across tools and data sources.
  • Define evaluation and quality standards, debug agent behavior, and improve prompts, workflows, tools, and guardrails.
  • Build and ship North AI workspace platform features across the full product lifecycle.
  • Own technical scoping and solution development end-to-end, including frontend work when needed.
  • Work directly with customers and partners, including on-site travel of up to 20–40%.
  • Mentor engineers, guide architecture and delivery, and contribute shared frameworks and patterns across distributed teams.

Requirements

  • 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 LLM ecosystems, vector databases, RAG architectures, agent and orchestration frameworks, prompt engineering, tool use, multi-step agent workflows, and failure handling.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience working directly with customers or stakeholders to deliver LLM-powered agentic solutions.
  • Proven team-level technical leadership guiding the architecture, implementation, and delivery of complex AI systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Fluency in English and Korean.
  • Preferred experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams.
  • Preferred experience working across unfamiliar technical areas such as frontend development.
  • Exposure to regulated or sensitive industries including finance, healthcare, or telecommunications is a plus.
  • Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems is a plus.

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget.
  • RRSP matching, 401K, or pension scheme.
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to six months for either parent.
  • Annual arts and culture, fitness and wellness, quality time, workspace improvement, and education and learning benefits.
  • Six weeks of paid vacation, or 30 working days.
  • Budget for travel to other offices for remote employees and an annual company offsite.
  • Remote-friendly work arrangement with offices including Seoul, plus coworking benefits for employees away from an office.
  • Daily lunch program, snacks, and community events for office employees.
  • $500 home office stipend.

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About Cohere

1,001-5,000 employees

Cohere builds large language models and an enterprise AI platform that companies use for search, summarization, and workflow automation, delivered via API or private deployments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, it focuses on multilingual models, data controls, and options to run across major clouds or on-premises. The business is privately held and serves security- and compliance-sensitive organizations.

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