Google of Korea – Naver opens a programming center in Ho Chi Minh City

With the goal of building the strongest center in Southeast Asia for Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, at the end of February, Naver Corporation officially opened the first Dev Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The first Dev Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

According to the representative of Naver Vietnam (a subsidiary with legal status in Vietnam of Naver HQ), the Center will research and develop new features and operate the available features for the website and application versions. mobile, desktop services of services from headquarters such as WORKS (working tool that integrates functions such as mail, calender (schedule), drive (storage) and contact (contacts)) with a focus on internal connectivity) business suite.), MUSIC (with VIBE music platform), BBOOM (Community platform, helping people share their thoughts and experiences), FANSHIP (developed from VLive Live TV App – a place to connect artists and fans) … Besides, Dev Center programmers will also come up with ideas and design new products for Naver Clova AI Lab.

Services are being provided by Naver.

It is known that the Center is also part of the Global AI R&D Belt project (a strong AI research and development cooperation network from Korea to Japan, Europe, America and Southeast Asia deployed by Naver since 2018). and will be the convergence and connection of Artificial Intelligence Research Departments to cooperate with universities in Vietnam.

Sharing about the importance of Dev Center, a Naver representative said that the four main components of the Global AI R&D Belt project are Experts, Data, Infrastructure and Business Market. By building the Center as the main research headquarters, connecting labs with universities, Naver is able to attract and gather many excellent AI talents in Vietnam. In addition, through the center, the corporation can build local and global data at scale, to train competitive AI models. In addition, deep understanding of local cultures and markets will help AI businesses succeed globally. Furthermore, collaborative research partners will also gain more experience solving real-world, diverse, and challenging AI tasks.

The Global AI R&D Belt is being developed and expanded from Korea to Japan, France, Vietnam, USA, Canada, Germany, …

Although Vietnam may not be considered as one of the world’s leading countries in science and technology, Vietnam is extremely outstanding in the field of computer science, and possesses a young IT human resource full of young talents. potential. In addition, the cooperation with two typical Vietnamese universities, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Hanoi Academy of Posts and Telecommunications Technology, has achieved many amazing results above initial expectations. heads of both sides. In particular, the research work on synonym extraction in the text environment that Naver conducted with HUST brought great success when it was published at EMNLP 2021 – The world’s largest conference on natural language processing. It is expected that in early April, Naver and HUST will announce the results of 5 collaborative research projects in 2021, including Synonym extraction.

Currently, Naver is also focusing on recruiting AI talents for the Programming Center. According to progress, by 2023, Dev Center will have about 300 Dev employees. Current vacancies include: Backend Engineer (Java), Frontend Engineer (ReactJS/VueJS), macOS Engineer (Objective-C/Swift), Windows Engineer (C/C++), Windows Engineer (C# .net), iOS Engineer (Swift), Android Engineer (Java/Kotlin), Frontend Engineer (HTML/CSS).

A corner of the Naver Dev Center Programming Center in Ho Chi Minh City.

Naver Vietnam Development Center