Samsung SSAFY Tops 10,000 Job Placements With 60% of 1,725 Training Hours in AI
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Updated · 매일경제 · Jun 30
Samsung SSAFY Tops 10,000 Job Placements With 60% of 1,725 Training Hours in AI
3 articles · Updated · 매일경제 · Jun 30
Summary
Samsung said cumulative SSAFY job placements have exceeded 10,000, including early hires from the 14th class unveiled at a graduation ceremony in Seoul on Monday.
1,025 of the program’s 1,725 training hours—about 60%—were shifted to AI after Samsung redesigned the curriculum around “AI-native” skills and practical projects with more than 30 companies.
14th-class teams built deployable tools rather than classroom demos, including a quadruped rescue robot, a smartphone-based 3D body-modeling service, and a VLA-powered security robot for unmanned factories.
Since launching in December 2018, SSAFY has produced more than 11,000 graduates through the 13th class, with 9,396 already employed—about an 85% placement rate—across roughly 2,600 companies.
185 companies now give SSAFY graduates hiring advantages such as document-screening waivers or extra points, extending the program’s reach beyond IT into finance, robotics and generative AI.