Ai Startup Upstage Selects Special Military Service Company For Professional Research Personnel
2021/10/25Selected as a military exception company in recognition of Upstage's manpower, R&D participation & performance, etc.
PLANS TO HIRE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS AND AI RESEARCH ENGINEERS THROUGH INTERNAL RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Upstage's core product, AI Pack development participation
(Upstage = 2021/10/25) AI startup Upstage (CEO Kim Seong-hoon), which helps companies focus on their own core business, announced on the 25th that it has been selected as a company designated for military service in the second half of 2021.
The expert research personnel system is a system in which a person who has obtained a master's degree or higher in science and engineering performs research and development work for three years at a designated company selected by the Military Manpower Administration, replacing military service. Companies designated for military service can be selected only when they comprehensively meet criteria such as the size of research personnel, the company's participation in R&D, and investment performance. Through this, SMEs can secure development manpower in the field of science and engineering, and students who have obtained degrees in science and engineering will have an opportunity to develop their research and development capabilities in the field.
UPSTAGE WAS FINALLY SELECTED AMONG 550 COMPANIES THAT APPLIED FOR MILITARY SERVICE DESIGNATION IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2021. IN PARTICULAR, UPSTAGE PLANS TO SELECT PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH PERSONNEL AS THE MAXIMUM TO THAT CAN BE HIRED BASED ON SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES, AND PLANS TO SELECT SOFTWARE ENGINEERS AND AI RESEARCH ENGINEERS.
Professionals who join Upstage as professional research personnel are provided with the same various convenience facilities, in-house training, and welfare benefits as regular employees. In addition, they will have the opportunity to work with senior developers from global tech companies such as Facebook and AWS, as well as participate in the development of AI Pack, a core product of Upstage. In particular, through Upstage's AI sharing culture, technology coverage can be broadened.
Established in October, Upstage successfully introduced AI to customers in finance, education, and distribution, and achieved sales of KRW 8.8 billion in just 8 months of establishment. In a recent series A round, it attracted an investment of 31.6 billion won and was recognized as a leading company in the AI industry. In addition, it won five gold medals at Kaggle, an AI competition in which 6 million machine learning developers around the world participate, solidifying its AI technology in the global market. Based on this technology, it provides AI pack solutions such as OCR, NLP, and recommendation that anyone can easily use and relearn.
UPSTAGE CEO KIM SEONG-HOON SAID, "I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY WITH TECHNOLOGY WITH PEOPLE WITH PROFESSIONAL CAPABILITIES." I WILL CONTRIBUTE." SAID.
More detailed job announcements can be found on the Upstage website, and more details will be delivered through an online job fair on November 4th.
Contact
Upstage | Geun-Kyo Kim PR Director | 010-8229-7240 | keunkyo@upstage.ai
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Founded in October 2020, Upstage identifies areas that can be innovated through AI technology among corporate problems and provides consulting including basic AI model and system construction required for this. In addition, by supporting the nurturing of AI talents within customer companies, it will help companies with successful AI transformation by improving their own AI competitiveness. Furthermore, the company plans to actively design AI teams by nurturing differentiated professional talents who can be immediately put into AI business through hands-on training that melts AI business experience and solid AI basic training.
CEO Seong-Hoon Kim developed Kachine, an early search engine in Korea, and co-founded Nara Vision, Inc. Since then, while serving as a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he won the ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award 4 times, the best paper award, for research on bug prediction and automatic source code generation that converges software engineering and machine learning. He is a world-class scholar in software engineering and AI, winning influential thesis awards. He is also widely known as a deep learning instructor for everyone, which has recorded more than 6 million views in total.
Upstage's co-founders include CTO Lee Hal-seok, who led Naver Visual AI / OCR and achieved global results, and CSO Park Eun-jung, who led the model team of Papago, the world's best translator.