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Forward Deployed Engineer(FDE)

Full-time🇰🇷 Seoul

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Job Title

Forward Deployed Engineer

Salary

Top-of-market compensation.

Company Description

Harper works with AI companies that are hiring in Korea right now, and the list keeps growing. One reached a $5B valuation in under two years. One is a global AI company opening its Korea office, after New York, London, Singapore and Tokyo. Many more companies need this role than are public about hiring for it, which is exactly why they come to Harper.

This posting is not for one of them in particular. Talk to Harper once, and it tells you which of these companies you are most likely to match with, ranked in that order, with the salary band for each, before you commit to talking to anyone.

Every role behind this posting is live and confirmed with the company that is hiring. Harper never posts a fake or placeholder job.

What You'll Do

Forward Deployed Engineer is the role frontier AI companies are competing hardest to fill right now, and every company behind this posting is hiring for it.

Forward Deployed Engineering is not traditional product engineering. You sit with the customer, learn how their operations actually run, and build the systems that make AI work inside them. You lead a deployment from the first conversation through production, then keep iterating until it delivers.

  • Run discovery with enterprise customers: map how they work, where the cost sits, and what would count as success.
  • Turn that into a scoped plan with requirements, an integration approach, and metrics the customer will be held to.
  • Own delivery end to end, from the first pilot through production launch, working alongside the engineers who build it.
  • Align timelines, deliverables, and expectations across the customer, product, and engineering.
  • Monitor how the agents perform in production and drive the next round of improvements.
  • Find the next use case with the customer and expand from one workflow into the business.

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of hands-on software engineering, with production systems that real users depend on.
  • Experience across APIs, integrations, and data flows between systems.
  • You want to be in front of customers. This is customer facing engineering, not a pure backend or infrastructure role.
  • The ability to bring structure and momentum to a problem nobody has scoped yet.
  • Business level Korean and English. You will work with global teams directly, with no layer in between.

Years of experience is not a cutoff in this posting. These companies are hiring at different levels at the same time. Talk to Harper and it tells you which of them fits your years and your track record, and at what level, before you talk to anyone.

Nice to Have

  • Strong Python. One of these companies also expects React and TypeScript for full stack agent work.
  • Hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, or agent systems in production, beyond demos.
  • A forward deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting background.
  • Familiarity with LLM evaluation, observability, and reliability in live environments.
  • Cloud fluency (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Time at a fast growing or early stage company.

Why This Role Is Remarkable

  • You own the account technically. First customer call through production is yours, not a ticket in someone's backlog.
  • What you build runs inside real enterprises and gets measured on business outcomes, not demos.
  • These teams are early in Korea. What you ship in the first year becomes how the market runs.
  • Very few engineers in Korea have done this job yet, and the companies hiring for it are all hiring at the same time. That is unusual leverage for a candidate.

How Harper Works

  • Sign up and talk to Harper.

    Tell Harper about the work you've done and the kind of environment you'd like to work in next.

  • Show interest in a role you like.

    Harper will review the role and assess how well it fits you, using information the company has shared privately with Harper.

  • Harper connects you with the company.

    If it looks like a good fit, Harper may recommend you to the company first or ask whether you'd like to move forward with the role, depending on your settings. If you say yes, Harper helps make the connection right away.

  • Keep the door open while you work.

    Harper keeps looking for opportunities that match what you want and suggests new connections. You don't have to be actively job searching. You can consider each company's proposal before deciding whether to move forward, and Harper will help you through the process.

    • FAQ

    Are these real job opportunities?

    Yes. These are roles companies have asked Harper to help with, and Harper is in direct contact with them.

    Am I applying directly here?

    No. Harper uses information the company has shared privately to assess how well the role fits you. If it looks like a good fit, Harper may recommend you to the company first or ask whether you'd like to move forward with the role first. If you accept, Harper helps make the connection right away. For now, tell Harper which role interests you. Harper will review it first and prepare what it needs to introduce you well.

    How is this different from applying directly to the company?

    You're more likely to reach a meeting, and Harper helps you through the process.

    Will my information be shared with the company?

    You can choose between two approaches. With Exceptional only, Harper shows you a strong opportunity first and shares your profile with the company only after you accept and allow profile sharing. With Open to matches, Harper may introduce your profile to a company first when there's a strong fit. This can lead to more opportunities, and you can review the company's proposal before deciding whether to move forward.

    What if I'm not looking to move right now?

    That's fine. Tell Harper you're not planning a move right now. You can look at a proposal you like and decide then.

    What happens after I accept a role?

    Harper prepares your profile and relevant experience for an introduction to the company and helps make the connection. Your profile is shared according to your settings and consent, and Harper keeps you updated by email.

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