Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer

Reflection AI
Seoul
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Customer-facing","Ownership"]

Technical lead role building and scaling agentic AI systems for enterprise deployments. Own end-to-end strategy, design, and delivery of complex AI applications across hybrid environments, partnering with sales and deployment teams, mentoring the Forward Deployed Engineering group, and aligning research with customer needs.

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Reflection AI
Reflection AI
2 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Technical lead role building and scaling agentic AI systems for enterprise deployments. Own end-to-end strategy, design, and delivery of complex AI applications across hybrid environments, partnering with sales and deployment teams, mentoring the Forward Deployed Engineering group, and aligning research with customer needs.
Location: Seoul
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with Deployment Strategists and Sales to understand enterprise customer needs, architect solutions, and develop transformative agentic applications.
  • •Architect and build complex agentic systems using state-of-the-art models, orchestrating sophisticated LLM workflows and integrating deeply with enterprise infrastructure.
  • •Collaborate with research teams to adapt and fine-tune models for customer-specific needs, contributing to our internal codebase for inference, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
  • •Own end-to-end deployments across hybrid environments (public cloud, VPC, and on-premises), ensuring production-grade scalability, performance, and reliability.
  • •Shape and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering organization by defining playbooks, best practices, technical standards, and mentorship to support team growth.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental LeaveRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering background with experience shipping production-grade systems (Python, Typescript).
  • •Proven track record of deploying enterprise software in cloud or hybrid environments using modern DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD).
  • •Deep understanding of machine learning concepts and hands-on experience with modern AI stacks, including vector databases, RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, evaluations, and fine-tuning.
  • •6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership capacity delivering AI-driven enterprise solutions (e.g., Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager).
  • •Demonstrated ability and interest to work in customer-facing environments, understanding user needs, architecting solutions for real business problems, and delivering tangible outcomes.
Experience:6+ yearsAIEnterprise software
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingCustomer-facingOwnership
Tech Stack:PythonTypescriptDockerKubernetesCI/CDVector databasesRAG pipelinesAgent orchestrationLLMInferenceFine-tuning

Company Brief

Reflection AI
Builds frontier autonomous AI systems focused on autonomous coding agents (product: Asimov) to create organizational superintelligence, founded by former DeepMind/Google researchers and hiring across SF, NYC, London.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2024
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