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Funding and backers

Total raised
$8.6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8.6M
Venture round · Jul 2020 · 6 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
20
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
LG Technology Ventures, Naver D2 Startup Factory
The money's age
Long since its last round
74 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
29/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 19 First executive search Executive Assistant (CEO) Aug 7, 2025 Partnership MakinaRocks joins Upstage consortium as top AI team for Korea's independent model · CHOSUNBIZ Aug 7, 2023 Partnership MakinaRocks and 3K Technologies Announce Global Partnership · seekingalpha.com Jun 21, 2023 Recognition Makinarocks Named To The 2023 Cb Insights Ai 100 List Of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups · menafn.com Jul 22, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $8.6M · The Korea Herald Dec 2018 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2020 $8.6M — The Korea Herald
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How MakinaRocks hires

Truth index
B 70/100
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

MakinaRocks scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 20 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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

Overview

MakinaRocks is a South Korean industrial AI company that builds physical AI on an enterprise AI operating system for harsh environments ranging from factories to defence. Its product development division turns its AI into platform and application products for industrial sites, and it hires technical product managers, MLOps solution architects, AI software project managers and legal counsel. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

News

News 보안뉴스 2 months ago
스피어AX, 마키나락스와 MOU 통해 국방제조글로벌 AI 사업 확장 가속
비전 AI 전문기업 스피어AX(대표이사 박윤하)가 국내외 전략적 파트너십을 잇달아 확대하며 국방제조글로벌 시장을 아우르는 AI 사업 확장에 본격적으로 나서고
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News The Asia Business Daily 2 months ago
Makinarocks Surges 12% and GS Engineering & Construction Gains 6% as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix Tumble... Which Stocks Will CEO Kim Donghwa Pick for Tomorrow?
Even when large semiconductor stocks face a massive plunge, it does not mean that all liquidity in the market dries up. Smart money quickly exits larg
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News CHOSUNBIZ 6 months ago
MakinaRocks expands FDE hiring to scale industrial AI in Korea and Japan
MakinaRocks expands FDE hiring to scale industrial AI in Korea and Japan Industry-focused artificial intelligence AI corporations MakinaRocks said on
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News CHOSUNBIZ 7 months ago
MakinaRocks wins KOSDAQ nod, targets first-half IPO to power Korea AI push
MakinaRocks wins KOSDAQ nod, targets first-half IPO to power Korea AI push MakinaRocks, an industrial specialized artificial intelligence AI corporat
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News The Asia Business Daily 7 months ago
MakinaRocks Passes Preliminary KOSDAQ Listing Review...AI Company Begins IPO Journey
MakinaRocks, an industrial AI company specializing in vertical solutions, announced on March 3 that it has received preliminary approval for a KOSDAQ
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News CHOSUNBIZ 1 year ago
MakinaRocks joins Upstage consortium as top AI team for Korea's independent model
MakinaRocks joins Upstage consortium as top AI team for Koreas independent model MakinaRocks, an industry-specialized artificial intelligence AI corp
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
Hankook & MakinaRocks to develop AI tyre design
MakinaRocks won a technology innovation competition
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at MakinaRocks over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
59
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python31%
Go8%
SQL8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch23%
PoC Library15%
TensorFlow15%
LangChain8%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes69%
Runway38%
GitHub15%
Istio15%
AI & ML
LLM38%
VLM15%
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Full MakinaRocks tech stack 59 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
79/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
20
6 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
2 days
faster than 92% 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.
Solutions
27% ▼
Product
18% ▲
Backend
9% ▲
QA
9% ▲
Administrative
9% ▲
Legal
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Agile to stack Oct 2026
Added vLLM to stack Oct 2026
Added PoC Library to stack Oct 2026
Added LDAP to stack Oct 2026
Added Argo Workflows to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Seoul
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Seoul South Korea
HQ
16 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Solutions, AI/ML, Backend
대한민국 서울특별시 서초구 강남대로 343 Seoul, Korea
seen since Jul 2025 job postings
Sejong South Korea
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Solutions
마키나락스 세종오피스
seen since Jun 2026 job postings

Jobs

In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
Python
SQL
LangGraph
LangChain
MLFlow
XGBoost
Triton Inference Server
Scikit-learn
AI Agents
VLM
Kubeflow
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
Triton
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Linux
Management
Confluence
Jira
Apply
In office • Full-Time
Python
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
VLM
LLM
RAG
Apply
≈ $70k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
AI Agents
Runway
DevOps
Kubernetes
Chips/EDA
PoC Library
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $82k – $194k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Seoul
vLLM
LLM
LLMOps
DevOps
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Argo Workflows
Cybersecurity
LDAP
Chips/EDA
PoC Library
Apply
≈ $98k – $211k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Apply
≈ $111k – $237k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Seoul
Runway
LLMOps
DevOps
Helm
Istio
GitOps
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Gateway API
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Apply
≈ $62k – $182k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Seoul
Python
Go
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
Istio
CI/CD
Git
Kubernetes
Gitea
GitHub
GitLab
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Apply
≈ $58k – $170k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Vertex AI
DevOps
CloudFormation
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SIEM
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In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Python
Runway
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
Management
Jira
QA
Selenium
Playwright
Apply
≈ $71k – $187k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Sejong
Runway
DevOps
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Apply
≈ $71k – $185k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Runway
DevOps
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Apply
≈ $74k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Seoul
Quantization
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Few-Shot Learning
Data Augmentation
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$8.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $8.6M Details