Leader call โ€” ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์„œ์‚ฌ

15๋ถ„ ๋ฆฌ๋” ์ฝœ์šฉ โ€” ๋„ค ์ง„์งœ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅยท๋™๊ธฐยท์ฒ ํ•™์„ ์กฐ๊ฐ์กฐ๊ฐ. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜์–ด ํ•œ ์ค„์”ฉ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งํ•ด์„œ ๋„ค ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ผ.

์ž๊ธฐ์†Œ๊ฐœ(60~90์ดˆ) ์ˆœ์„œ: ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์•„ํฌ โ†’ MES/WMS๋ž€ โ†’ ์™œ ์ง€๊ธˆ โ†’ Opendoor ํ• ์นด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด์„œ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜คํ”„๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.(๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๋‚ ์งœยทํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ˆœ์„œ๋Š” ์ดˆ์•ˆ โ€” ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ ์ณ์ค˜. ์˜์–ด ๋ฌธ์žฅ๋„ ๋„ค ์ž…์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”.)

๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ / Career

  • Tell me about yourself / walk me through your background

    ๊ณต์žฅ์„ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ 6๋…„ โ€” ์ œํ’ˆ ํ•œ ๊ฐœ ํ•œ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ์ž๋™์ฐจ ์‹œํŠธํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„, ๊ทธ๋‹ค์Œ EV ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ(SK์˜จ). ๋‘๋ ˆ์ •๋ณด(1๋…„ ๋‚จ์ง“) โ†’ SK AX ์ตœ๊ทผ๊นŒ์ง€. (MES/WMS ๊ฐ™์€ ์šฉ์–ด๋Š” ๋ฌป๊ฑฐ๋“  ๊ทธ๋•Œ ํ’€์–ด์„œ.)

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo I've been doing factory software for about six years โ€” basically the systems that track every unit as it moves through the line and keep its data right. I started in automotive seat frames, then moved into EV batteries.โ€

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  • What did you actually do? / what is MES/WMS

    ๊ณต์žฅ์—์„  ์ œํ’ˆ ํ•œ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ 'LOT'์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ ํ•œ๋‹ค โ€” ํ•œ ์ฑ„์˜ ์ง‘์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ƒํƒœ์™€ ์ „์ฒด ์ด๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๊ทธ raw ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค ๋ชจ์•„์„œ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธยท์›๊ฐ€๋ถ„์„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฝ‘๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. Opendoor๊ฐ€ ์ง‘ ํ•œ ์ฑ„๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž‘ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ด ๋˜‘๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œThe way I'd put it โ€” in a factory, each product is tracked as a unit, kind of like a single house: it has a state, a whole history, and it moves through stages. My job was pulling all that raw data together and turning it into insight, even cost analysis. Which is honestly a lot like what Opendoor does with each property.โ€

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  • How do you work? / scope (the differentiator โ€” not a spec-coder)

    ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ŠคํŽ™ ๋ฐ›์•„์„œ ์ฐ์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ดํ•ด ๋ชป ํ•˜๋˜ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ณต์žฅ ๋„๋ฉ”์ธ์„ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ํŒŒ๊ณ ๋“ค์–ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ํ˜„์—…์ด๋ž‘ ๋ถ€๋”ชํ˜€ ๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์“ฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ๊ต์œก๊นŒ์ง€ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ: ๋‚ฏ์„ค๊ณ  ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋„๋ฉ”์ธ์— ๋–จ๊ถˆ๋†”๋„ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง€๊ณ  ๊ตด๋ฆฐ๋‹ค โ€” Opendoor๊ฐ€ ๋”ฑ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋„๋ฉ”์ธ์ด๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œI was never the kind of engineer who just takes a spec and codes it. I'd go deep into a messy domain nobody really understood, figure it out myself, build it side by side with the business, and train the people who actually use it. So you can drop me into a complex domain and I'll own it end to end โ€” which is honestly what Opendoor is.โ€

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  • Strength relevant to Opendoor's many markets

    ๊ณต์žฅ์ด ํ•œ๊ตญยท์ค‘๊ตญยทํ—๊ฐ€๋ฆฌยท๋ฏธ๊ตญ โ€” ๊ฐ™์€ ์—…๋ฌด๋„ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ฒด๊ณ„ยทํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋‹ค. Opendoor๋„ ์ฃผ/๋„์‹œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šคยทํ‰๊ฐ€ยท๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์ˆ˜์ง‘์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ํ…๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์ค‘ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๋˜‘๊ฐ™๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo our plants were in Korea, China, Hungary, the US โ€” and honestly the same job ran a little differently at each one. Opendoor's kind of the same, right, it changes by state and city. So that multi-site thing, I've already done it.โ€

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๋™๊ธฐ / Why now

  • Why are you here / why this move

    ์›Œํ™€๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”๋‹ค. 2๋…„ ์ „ AI๋ฅผ ์“ฐ๋ฉด์„œ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค โ€” ํ•œ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์ด ํญ๋ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo I came here on a working holiday, honestly just to try something new. And two years ago, AI kind of hit me hard โ€” I mean, it really exploded what one engineer can do.โ€

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  • Why this matters to you (conviction)

    ์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋ž‘ ๊ฐ™์ด ์‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค โ€” ๊ฐ€๋”์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์˜†์— ๋‘๊ณ  ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œHonestly, I want to work with this tool every single day, not just now and then. I kind of can't picture working any other way anymore.โ€

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  • Why this move โ€” toward AI, not away from anywhere (NO company-bashing)

    ์ „ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ผ์€ ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋„ ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค โ€” ์š•ํ•  ์ƒ๊ฐ ์ „ํ˜€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” AI์— ์ง„์‹ฌ์ด๊ณ , ๋ถ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ AI๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์„œ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ ยท๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ ยท์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค. '๋– ๋‚˜๋Š”' ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ 'AI๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ธ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š”' ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œI'm genuinely grateful for my time at SK AX โ€” I did good work there. But I'm all-in on AI, and I know North America leans into it harder than anywhere. I wanted to be right in the middle of that โ€” to really learn it, use it every day, and grow. For me it's less about leaving and more about going toward where AI is the center.โ€

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  • What you bring โ€” not just chasing AI (two-way)

    ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ AI ์œ ํ–‰ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜จ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ •ํ•ฉ์„ฑยทํŠธ๋žœ์žญ์…˜ยท๋„๋ฉ”์ธ ๊ฐ™์€ '๋ฐ‘๋‹จ' ๊ธฐ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์Œ“์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋„ ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ฑฐ๊พธ๋กœ ๋„์ „ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Ÿฌ ์˜จ ๋™์‹œ์—, ๊ทธ ๊นŠ์ด๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œAnd I'm not just chasing the hype. I built real depth at the low level โ€” data integrity, transactions, owning a domain end to end โ€” and I want to see if that foundation carries over here, and bring it. So I'm here to learn, but I think I've got something to give too.โ€

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  • Where are you headed / ambition

    ์•ž์œผ๋กœ AI ๊ตฐ๋‹จ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋А๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด 1์ธ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€์˜ ๋งˆ์ธ๋“œ๋กœ ์ผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œHonestly, where I want to get to is running a whole fleet of AI agents myself โ€” basically working like a one-person company.โ€

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์ฒ ํ•™ / Philosophy

  • Your view on AI / engineering

    AI๋ฅผ ์“ธ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ง€์‹์ด ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. AI๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋†“๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ณ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์•Œ์•„๋“ค์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ณต๋ถ€ยท์˜์–ดยท์ง€์‹์ด ๋” ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œHonestly, the more I use AI, the more I think knowledge matters. I mean, to catch what's wrong and really get what it gives me, fast, I have to study more, not less.โ€

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  • What's the engineer's job now

    AI๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ '์ข‹์•„ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒ' ํŽธํ–ฅ์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด์˜ ์ผ์€ ํŒ๋‹จ์ด๋‹ค โ€” ๊ทธ๋Ÿด๋“ฏํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ง„์งœ ๋งž๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ฒ ํ•™์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ ค๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œAI tends to make everything look good, so the part I really focus on is the judgment โ€” telling what's actually correct from what just sounds right.โ€

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Opendoor ํ• / Fit

  • Why Opendoor / why this role

    Opendoor๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ชจ๋ธยท์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ œ์กฐ์™€ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ •ํ•ฉ์„ฑยท์ •ํ™•๋„ยทํŠธ๋žœ์žญ์…˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ์ž์‹  ์žˆ๋‹ค โ€” ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด ํ™ˆ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo Opendoor is a different field, but honestly the model and what it cares about feel the same as manufacturing to me. I'm a bit lighter on the high-scale traffic side, but data integrity, accuracy, getting the transaction boundary right โ€” that's kind of my home ground.โ€

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๋ฆฌ๋”์—๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์งˆ๋ฌธ / Ask the leader

  • ๋ฆฌ๋”์—๊ฒŒ โ€” ์—ญํ•  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ + AI ๋น„์ „

    ์ด ์—ญํ• ์— ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ญ”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ AI๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„์ „์ด ๋ญ”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์†Œ์œ ํ•˜๋Š” '1์ธ ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด'๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€?

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo I'm curious โ€” what do you really want from this role, and where's the company going with AI? I mean, are you looking for someone who can own a product end to end, kind of like a one-person product engineer, not just write code?โ€

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  • ๋ฆฌ๋”์—๊ฒŒ โ€” AI๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์–ด๋””์—

    ํŒ€์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ AI๋ฅผ ์–ด๋””์— ์ ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋””์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ ‘๋ชฉํ•˜๋ ค ํ•˜๋‚˜?

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo where's the team actually using AI right now? And, I mean, where do you see the biggest chance to lean into it next?โ€

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  • ๋ฆฌ๋”์—๊ฒŒ โ€” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ’ˆ์งˆ (๋„ค ํ™ˆ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ)

    ๋‚ด ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋งž๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ฝค ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋น„์ •์ œ์ผ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ •ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์—์„œ ํŒ€์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์–ด๋””์ธ๊ฐ€?

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo from what I understand, real-estate data is pretty messy and not very structured, right? I'm curious where the team struggles the most with data quality or keeping it consistent.โ€

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  • ๋ฆฌ๋”์—๊ฒŒ โ€” ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต

    ์ฒซ 6๊ฐœ์›”์— ์„ฑ๊ณต์ด๋ž€ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ชจ์Šต์ด๊ณ , ์ด ํŒ€์—์„œ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ๊ณ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋ญ”๊ฐ€?

    ๐Ÿ—ฃ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋งํ•ด (๋‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ)

    โ€œSo in the first six months, what would success look like to you? And honestly, what makes someone do well here, versus someone who kind of struggles?โ€

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