Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Engineer
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · Seoul
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Not stated in the posting: salary.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Reflection's standard text
Our Mission
Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a core member of Reflection’s Applied AI team to drive our Forward Deployed Engineering efforts with enterprise customers. This team works hands-on to translate advanced AI research into high-impact, real-world applications. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own the technical strategy and delivery of agentic systems from initial customer discovery through production launch.
What You'll Do
- Partner with Deployment Strategists and Sales to understand enterprise customer needs, architect solutions, and develop transformative agentic applications.
- Build agentic systems using state-of-the-art models, orchestrating LLM workflows, integrating with enterprise infrastructure, and deploying reliable production systems.
- Collaborate with research teams to adapt and fine-tune models for customer-specific needs.
- Support end-to-end deployments across hybrid environments (public cloud, VPC, and on-premises), helping ensure scalability, performance, and reliability in production.
- Contribute to evolving playbooks, processes, and best practices as part of a growing Forward Deployed Engineering organization.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience delivering AI-driven enterprise solutions (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, or Applied AI Engineer).
- Demonstrated ability and interest to work in customer-facing environments, understanding user needs, architecting solutions for real business problems, and delivering tangible outcomes.
- Self-starter with high agency and ownership, excelling in fast-paced startup environments where playbooks are still being written.
What We Offer:
Reflection's standard text
We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.
We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.
- Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
- Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.
- Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.
- Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.
- Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
- Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.
- Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.
- Team building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.
Reflection's standard text
Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws, which may require the Company to seek government authorization.
Candidate and Employee Privacy Notice: We collect and process personal data about applicants for the purposes described in our Candidate and Employee Privacy Notice
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Docker · RAG · TypeScript · Vector Databases
Rare in Reflection's other 36 open postings.
Standard for data science / ML roles
LLM · Machine Learning · Python
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
65% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Reflection's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Reflection's other open postings on this site.
The team: Applied AI
This role is one of 6 open in Applied AI.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
LLM (5 of 6), Python (5 of 6), CI/CD (4 of 6), Docker (4 of 6), Kubernetes (4 of 6), Machine Learning (4 of 6), RAG (4 of 6)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer posted Jun 9
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer posted May 12
- Forward Deployed Engineer - LLM Post-training posted Apr 22
- Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Engineer posted Dec 17
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - LLM Post-training posted Oct 29
From the team and dates on Reflection's own job board.
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