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How 42dot hires

Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
43 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
57%
Reposted roles
0%

42dot scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 57% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 43 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 3

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Overview

42dot is a South Korean mobility software company founded in 2019 and acquired by Hyundai Motor Group in 2022, where it serves as the group's global software centre. It develops the software-defined vehicle platform for Hyundai and Kia, covering the vehicle operating system, over-the-air updates, autonomous driving software, AI services and the cloud services behind them, with offices in Sunnyvale and Warsaw. The company is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.

News

News The Korea Herald 1 month ago
Hyundai's 42dot to close gap with Tesla, Waymo in autonomous driving
Hyundai Motor Group's autonomous driving subsidiary, 42dot, is accelerating its drive to narrow the technology gap with industry leaders Tesla and Waymo. While
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News Yonhap News Agency 1 month ago
(News Focus) Inside 42dot: Hyundai Motor accelerates autonomous driving push with AI data flywheel
By Kim Eun-jung SEONGNAM, South Korea, Sept. 13 (Yonhap) -- In the fast-evolving autonom...
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News CHOSUNBIZ 9 months ago
42dot hires 50 specialists to boost Atria AI autonomous driving
42dot hires 50 specialists to boost Atria AI autonomous driving 42dot is hiring more than 50 experienced developers in the Autonomous Driving field
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News The Korea Herald 1 year ago
Hyundai Motor's software unit 42dot to raise $360m
Hyundai Motor Group's software unit 42dot said Monday it plans to raise 500 billion won ($360 million) through a rights offering as the artificial intelligence-
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News TechCrunch 4 years ago
Hyundai Motor eyes acquisition of Korean startup 42dot
42dot is in merger talks with Hyundai Motor, but terms, including stake size and deal valuation, hadn't materialized yet.
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News TechCrunch 5 years ago
Korean autonomous driving startup 42dot bags $88.5M Series A to accelerate its growth
42dot, a South Korea-based autonomous transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) startup, announced today it has raised $88.5 million (104 billion WON) in a
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at 42dot over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
236
Postings analysed
115
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python37%
C++35%
Kotlin14%
Rust13%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch11%
ROS25%
TensorFlow4%
CUDA4%
Databases
PostgreSQL3%
Delta Lake3%
OpenSearch3%
ElasticSearch3%
Cloud & platforms
Linux28%
Kubernetes17%
AWS10%
Figma8%
AI & ML
LLM18%
VLM4%
AWQ2%
GPTQ2%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$190k – $311k
Open positions
13
11 Jobs
Junior 9.1%
Senior 54.5%
Staff 27.3%
Architect 9.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $190k $190k
Senior 6 $235k $196k – $254k
Staff 3 $303k $267k – $311k
Architect 1 $267k $267k
Highest paying role Staff VLA Engineer $311k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at 42dot By role, level and city, against the market · 13 jobs with pay

Products

Vehicle Cloud
The connected car backend handling telemetry, data pipelines and in-vehicle services. It is where the volume of data generated by a connected fleet becomes an engineering problem of its own, separate from anything happening in the car.
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Mobility Services
Fleet management, routing and demand platforms for shared and commercial mobility operations. It applies the same software stack to vehicles the group operates itself rather than sells, which gives the platform a testing ground under real conditions.
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Autonomous Driving
Perception, planning and control software for driver assistance and autonomous operation. The team runs its own test fleets in Korea and the United States to gather the data these systems require, because a carmaker cannot buy that data from anyone else.
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Over-the-Air Updates
Infrastructure for delivering software updates to vehicles already in customers' hands. It changes a car from a fixed product into one whose capability can be extended after sale, which also changes how features can be sold.
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Software Defined Vehicle Platform
The vehicle operating system and architecture intended to run across the group's future models. Moving from dozens of supplier-controlled electronic units to a centralised software stack is the single largest engineering change facing traditional carmakers.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
83
11 opened / 25 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
17% ▼
Product
16% ▼
DevOps
10% ▼
Backend
7%
QA
7%
Management
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Product (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added GDPR to stack Oct 2026
Added Text-to-Speech to stack Oct 2026
New location: Seongnam Sep 2026
Added 3ds Max to stack Sep 2026
Added Triton to stack Sep 2026
Added Speculative Decoding to stack Sep 2026
Added ONNX Runtime to stack Sep 2026
Added MLIR to stack Sep 2026
Added KV Cache to stack Sep 2026
Added Apache TVM to stack Sep 2026
Added Knowledge Graph to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Seongnam
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Seongnam South Korea
HQ
72 open roles 87 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Product, Backend
seen since Apr 2025 job postings
Sunnyvale United States
Plant / site
13 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 46% engineering 50-200 est. staff $245k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, AI/ML, Hardware
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Warsaw Poland
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Design
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1 open roles · last posting Jul 2026

Jobs

Hybrid • Full-Time • Seongnam
C++
Linux
Cybersecurity
PKI
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Seongnam
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
PPO
GRPO
Vision-Language-Action
World Models
Machine Learning
Robotics
Sim-to-Real
Reinforcement Learning
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Seongnam
Python
Fine-tuning
Function Calling
AI Agents
VLM
LLM
Tool Use
Machine Learning
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≈ $90k – $203k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Seongnam
C++
Computer Vision
Gaussian Splatting
NeRF
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
Ceres Solver
GTSAM
Open3D
SLAM
Sensor Fusion
COLMAP
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≈ $82k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Seongnam
Confluence
Jira
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$189k – $267k per year • In office • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Python
RTOS
CI/CD
Linux
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Seongnam
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Quantization
ONNX
TensorRT
PyTorch
LLM
Text-to-Speech
Edge AI
DevOps
Linux
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Hybrid • Full-Time • Seongnam
Python
Rust
C++
RTOS
CI/CD
Linux
Management
Agile
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Hybrid • Full-Time • Seongnam
Rust
C++
gRPC
Robotics
Zenoh
IoT
MQTT
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≈ $59k – $122k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Warsaw
3ds Max
Figma
ProtoPie
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≈ $80k – $197k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Seongnam
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≈ $100k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Seongnam
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Financials

Total raised
$88.5M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2021 $88.5M Details