Research Engineer - Foundation Models (2년 이상 / 계약직)

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Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

Design end-to-end pipelines for large LLM and multimodal foundation model workflows.
Implement training algorithms,data strategies,optimizations,and evaluation methods in production code.
Lead experiment design,implementation,execution,analysis,and documentation from research hypotheses.

What they want

Hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent in AI,CS,statistics,EE,or related fields.
Bring research or development experience in machine learning,deep learning,and foundation models.
Modify large codebases covering models,training loops,loaders,eval pipelines,and experiment configs.

Nice to have

Possess hands-on experience training,evaluating,or inferencing large LLMs or multimodal models.
Tackle distributed training,optimization,and model parallelism in large-scale model development.
Resolve instability,bottlenecks,evaluation mismatch,and data quality issues in foundation models.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Korean not required
English friendliness: High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
Context: Yeoksam Krafton AI Research role: one-year contract with possible conversion,five-month probation,and Korean-style application documents (CV,cover letter,career statement,transcripts,portfolio).

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