A new training program to discover talent in space software and AI , offering opportunities for full -time employment to outstanding participants .
TelePIX (CEO Seongik Cho), a comprehensive space AI solution company, announced on the 1st that it is conducting the 'Cosmo Pioneers Fellowship', a training program to cultivate talent for the newspace era.
This fellowship program is notable for moving away from the traditional academic and career-focused hiring process and adopting a competency-based selection process, focusing on applicants' potential and practical problem-solving skills. Drawing inspiration from the practical fellowship models employed by global tech companies like Palantir, the program emphasizes a focus on real-world problem-solving. This represents Telepix's attempt to extend the technological innovation and pioneering corporate culture it has cultivated in the newspace industry to its talent acquisition approach.
Telepix has fostered a corporate culture built on autonomy and self-direction, fostering the realization of creative and challenging ideas in space. This environment has led to the birth of innovative technologies such as TetraPLEX, Korea's first GPU-based satellite AI processor, and SatCHAT, an agentic AI-based satellite image analysis solution. Through this fellowship, Telepix plans to strengthen its training of next-generation AI and software talent and continue its technological innovation.
This fellowship is recruiting for positions in ▲AI (Artificial Intelligence) Engineers and ▲SW (Software) Engineers, focusing on fostering promising SW and AI talent seeking new challenges in the space industry. The space industry is currently transitioning to AI and software-based technologies for many of its core technologies, including satellite data analysis, real-time processing, and autonomous systems. The demand for related talent is rapidly increasing in the global market.
Applications for the program will be accepted starting December 1st on the Telefix recruitment website. Eligible applicants include high school graduates (or those expected to graduate) and first- and second-year university students. Successful applicants will be selected based on a practical assessment of their skills, centered on pre-submitted assignments. Telefix intends to apply its existing high hiring standards to the fellowship program to secure top talent.
Selected participants will work at Telefix's Yeouido headquarters for approximately two months, from January 5 to February 28, 2026. Participants will directly participate in the company's software development and AI projects, and through close mentoring by researchers and engineers with proven experience in the space and AI fields, they will develop practical, hands-on skills. Another key feature of the program is its design, which allows participants to actively grow through the challenges presented, even without specialized space expertise.
Participants who demonstrate outstanding performance upon completion of the program will be offered opportunities for full-time employment, and if certain requirements are met, they will also be eligible for a program that allows them to pursue their studies concurrently. Furthermore, compensation for the duration of the fellowship will be set at up to 5 million won per month. The company stated, "As we recruit talent based on competency, we aim to provide realistic compensation." Furthermore, Telepix plans to expand the recruitment scope to include personnel at its Daejeon campus and satellite system development.
Cho Sung-ik, CEO of Telefix, said, “The ideal talent for the AI era is not someone who accumulates knowledge, but someone who explores and solves new problems. Through this Cosmo Pioneers Fellowship, we will serve as a practical growth platform so that participants can grow into key talents in the future Newspace industry.” He also emphasized, “Telefix is also a place where people who are open to various possibilities, fiercely explore, and solve problems gather, and we have an environment that can provide many opportunities for new talents needed in the Newspace market. We will continue to create innovative Telefix projects together in the future.”
Meanwhile, Telepix possesses technologies spanning the entire satellite industry, from optical payloads, the "eyes" of satellites, to AI-based satellite imagery big data analysis solutions. By analyzing and processing vast amounts of information acquired from space, Telepix is creating new value in the "space economy" across diverse sectors, including defense, agriculture, resources, and the ocean. Its competitiveness has been recognized on the global stage, having been selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the first Korean space company to do so.
In addition, at the International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR), an international academic conference in the field of artificial intelligence held this year, a study conducted solely by Telepix researchers was selected as the top paper in the field of satellite imagery and received the Best Academic Paper Award. In the same year, at the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundation Models in Earth Observation (EO), co-hosted by NASA and ESA, Telepix was the only Korean company to present its research results.
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