Software Engineer, Applied AI ($150K–$300K + Equity)

About The Job The client is hiring for this role, and Harper, an AI career agent, is on your side of the table. Skip the application form: just talk to Harper, and in a few minutes it learns your background, then puts the strongest profiles directly in front of the client's decision-makers. 👉 Start with Harper Job Title Software Engineer, Applied AI (Full-Stack) Salary $150K–$300K + Equity: top-of-market compensation at a world-leading AI lab Location Seoul Company Description A world-leading open-weight AI lab, building frontier models that rival the best closed labs and shipping them into real enterprise products. The Seoul team works directly with major Korean enterprises, taking frontier AI from model to production. This is applied AI at the source: you work with the people who train the models, not just consume the API. What You'll Do - Build AI-powered products end to end on top of frontier models: backend, frontend, and the orchestration in between. - Design and ship LLM pipelines (RAG, agents, fine-tuning) into real enterprise production environments. - Work directly with enterprise customers to turn their hardest workflows into working AI systems. - Collaborate with research teams to bring the newest model capabilities into products first. - Own reliability, latency, and quality in production. Who You Are - 3+ years of hands-on software engineering, strong in Python and modern web stacks. - You have shipped production software that real users depend on. - Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, or agent systems beyond demos. - Comfortable working directly with customers and ambiguous requirements. - Business-level Korean and English. - Bonus: open-source contributions, or experience at a fast-moving AI startup. Why Join - Work at the source of frontier AI: alongside the researchers training the models. - Top-of-market comp ($150K–$300K) plus equity. - Seoul-based with a global team and global customers. - Ship AI that real enterprises run their business on, not just prototypes.