Roles subdivided to cover backend development, AI model development
Company holds game-themed recruitment event featuring 'Tales Runner'
CJ Logistics announced Thursday it is launching its second-half new employee recruitment drive for 2026, with plans to further subdivide technical roles to attract specialists capable of advancing the company's logistics technology development.
Applications are open across two tracks: a general track covering supply chain management, backend development, AI model development, optimization and packaging research and development, and a global track covering global supply chain management.
The defining feature of this recruitment cycle is the finer breakdown of technical roles. CJ Logistics has steadily expanded its hiring of IT development and AI and big data talent, and this second half of the year it has gone further by aligning job categories more precisely with actual technology development areas. The aim is to deepen expertise within each technical field and build a more systematic pipeline of talent capable of tackling the varied challenges that arise on the logistics floor.
The newly added backend development role focuses on building the server and data processing systems that keep logistics services — including order management, inventory and delivery — running reliably. The optimization role involves analyzing logistics conditions and data to design the most efficient configuration of logistics hubs and networks.
The company is also recruiting specialists in AI model development, which uses logistics data to drive forecasting and decision-making, and in packaging research and development, which focuses on packaging technologies suited to the characteristics of individual products.
By subdividing its technical roles in this way, CJ Logistics said it intends to build a denser layer of expertise spanning software system development, AI and logistics operations optimization. With AI and software increasingly central to the efficiency of warehouse operations and delivery networks, the company said its strategy is to deepen specialization across each technical domain and accelerate its evolution into an advanced logistics company.
Ahead of the recruitment drive, CJ Logistics held an interactive recruitment information session Aug. 28 at the Culture Tank in Mapo-gu, incorporating elements from the popular game Tales Runner. Participants took part in team missions inspired by the game's running-action format, including a relay race carrying CJ Logistics' O-NE boxes. Yoon Cheol-ju, head of CJ Logistics' FT division, also held an "SCM Career Talk" session at the event, introducing the future of the supply chain management industry and career paths in logistics.
Applications are being accepted through the end of this month via the CJ Group recruitment website, with the window having opened Wednesday. The selection process proceeds through document screening, aptitude and personality testing, practical interviews and executive interviews, in that order. Successful candidates will join the company in January and undergo new employee orientation training.
"Advanced technologies including AI and software are becoming the core drivers of competitiveness in the logistics industry, and we are building an environment where talented specialists in each field can fully apply their capabilities," said Kim Jeong-tae, head of human resources at CJ Logistics. "We hope that talented individuals will grow alongside CJ Logistics and lead the changes shaping the future of the logistics industry."
Meanwhile, CJ Logistics recently passed the second follow-up audit for ISO 37301, the international standard for compliance management systems, conducted by the Korea Compliance Institute. It is the sixth consecutive year the company has maintained the certification since becoming the first in the domestic logistics industry to receive it in 2021.
eyre@heraldcorp.com
