Hyundai Mobis Focuses on Strengthening Software Competitiveness

Hyundai Mobis's Shared Office

[Asia Economy Reporter Changhwan Lee] Hyundai Mobis has declared its leap into a software-specialized company and is accelerating its organizational reform.

This is because the automotive industry is recently being reorganized around electrification, autonomous driving, and connectivity, strengthening the importance of software for realizing technological convergence. Accordingly, internally, it is nurturing software specialists, and externally, it is expanding cooperation by building an ecosystem with software-specialized companies.

Hyundai Mobis is also operating strategic recruitment and training programs to secure its own software capabilities. To attract outstanding talent, it conducts company-wide integrated recruitment for software positions and also selects candidates through industry-academia-research collaboration.

Various educational programs are being operated to enhance researchers' software development capabilities. Through a total of four levels of software certification systems, the educational programs are structured to enable researchers to independently carry out projects.

Last year, it established a non-face-to-face specialized software education system and provides over 50 specialized contents focused on programming languages, artificial intelligence, and big data. This is to support employees in strengthening their software utilization capabilities by moving between online and offline in line with the untact trend accelerated by COVID-19.

Additionally, to allow researchers to showcase their development skills, Hyundai Mobis holds a ‘Software Algorithm Competition’ for employees. Participants solve tasks using creative coding techniques in four different computer languages within a set time; last year, about 100 participants including researchers and general office workers took part.

Meanwhile, in March, Hyundai Mobis established a cooperative ecosystem for domestic vehicle software localization development with 13 specialized development companies in Korea. Hyundai Mobis provides the system platform for software development, and partner companies add their own software technologies on top to complete the technology.

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