AI proficiency and security awareness to be key evaluation criteria

Company aims to establish organization-wide AI development standards

[Provided by INEX]
[Provided by INEX]

Infinity Exchange Korea, the operator of digital asset exchange INEX, said Wednesday it is recruiting "AI-native product engineers" with a focus on AI-assisted development capabilities and the ability to verify AI-generated outputs.

The hiring drive is part of INEX's broader AI transformation initiative. The company said it will evaluate candidates based on their actual development work throughout the selection process.

The document screening stage will assess the services, code and project roles each applicant has been involved in, with submission of a portfolio, GitHub profile, deployed services and demos required. The assignment stage will examine candidates' design and implementation processes, as well as how they verify AI-generated code.

Engineers selected through the process will be responsible for applying AI to trading systems, core application programming interfaces (APIs) and internal operations tools. They will also help establish organization-wide development standards covering the adoption of AI coding tools, prompt management, test automation and code review.

The role will also involve applying LLM-based technologies — including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — to live services. In addition, candidates are expected to have a solid understanding of the security and data protection requirements applicable to financial and virtual asset service providers (VASPs).

"In systems that handle user assets, AI is not a tool that replaces human judgment — it is a tool that humans must verify," said Jeon Ju-ho, INEX's chief technology officer. "We are looking for engineers who can not only build quickly with AI, but also validate what AI produces and take responsibility for the design behind it."

Meanwhile, INEX completed registration as a digital asset service provider with the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) in October 2024. In September, the company secured approval to use Circle Mint, the institutional issuance and redemption platform of US stablecoin issuer Circle.


kyoung@heraldcorp.com