AI Research Engineer - Foundation Model Research (Lead / Tech Lead)
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Seoul, South KoreaPosted 3 months ago
Market pay check
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
- Lead and build the Frontier Lab for next-generation foundation model pre-research
- Plan and operate industry-academia joint research projects with top domestic and international research labs
- Coordinate with core model development team every 3-6 months to identify and address technical bottlenecks
What they want
- 1st-author or corresponding-author publications at top-tier AI conferences in foundation model research (LLM,VLM,etc.)
- Experience leading industry-academia projects that produced papers or technology transfer outcomes
- Experience building or leading AI research organizations through successful project completion
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Nice to have
- Experience integrating frontier research into core model training pipelines on 3-6 month agile cycles
- Experience leading vision research on Agentic AI benchmarks or RL-based reasoning optimization
- Strategic prioritization ability within constrained resources and timelines
Seoulstart's read
- Visa tier (likely)
- E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
- Korean language