42dot, an autonomous driving company under Hyundai Motor Group, is recruiting more than 50 experienced developers in the autonomous driving field. Given that the company currently has around 500 developers, it is hiring roughly one-tenth of its workforce at once.

On the 26th, 42dot stated that this recruitment drive is in line with Hyundai Motor Group’s existing autonomous driving development roadmap. In particular, the company explained that it is expanding its workforce to further advance “Atria AI,” its proprietary end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving technology. E2E is a method in which artificial intelligence (AI) learns entire driving datasets and handles decision-making and control in a single integrated process.

Industry observers view this large-scale recruitment as an extension of the recent appointment of Park Min-woo, an autonomous driving expert from Nvidia, as both head of the AVP Division (president) and CEO of 42dot. Many see Hyundai Motor Group as beginning to accelerate its autonomous driving development to counter services such as Tesla’s supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), which has entered the Korean market. In fact, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun said to reporters at Kia’s 80th anniversary event last year, “It is true that our autonomous driving technology is lagging behind.”

A 42dot representative said, “Top-tier developers from Korea and abroad are gathering to strengthen 42dot’s technological competitiveness,” adding, “We look forward to applications from many outstanding professionals who will work together to drive Hyundai Motor Group’s transition to software-defined vehicles (SDVs).” Applications can be submitted via the 42dot recruitment website.

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