Jay Jaewon Kim

Jay Jaewon Kim

Principal Engineer

About

Software Engineer with 17 years of experience in hardware-software integration and real-time systems. Built and shipped platform-level software across production hardware at Samsung; currently integrating and stabilizing autonomy software in customer environments at Shield AI.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Software Development, Embedded Systems, Mobile Applications, Networking, Internet of Things, Smart TV

Experience

Hanwha Vision America

Principal Engineer

Hanwha Vision America

2026-5 - Present · 5 mos

Carlsbad, CA

Shield AI

Staff Software Application Engineer

Shield AI

LinkedIn
2025-7 - 2026-1 · 7 mos

San Diego, CA

Samsung Electronics

Staff Software Engineer

Samsung Electronics

LinkedIn
2024-5 - 2025-6 · 1 yr 2 mos

Seoul, South Korea

Developed a video analysis service in C++, integrating the YOLO12 model to detect key moments in smartphone videos; redesigned the streaming pipeline to optimize camera frame processing and improve CPU/GPU utilization, reducing execution time by 50%.

Samsung Research America (SRA)

Staff Software Engineer

Samsung Research America (SRA)

LinkedIn
2022-9 - 2024-5 · 1 yr 9 mos

Mountain View, California, United States

Designed an Android Health data service integrating user data with a Llama 3.2-based pipeline to extract entities, relationships, and trends for a knowledge graph, enabling personalized health insights.

Holeman

Startup Side Project

Holeman

2020-3 - 2022-10 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Seoul, South Korea

Developed an IoT solution providing precise distance information for golfers, including GPS/LoRa sensor devices, a LoRaWAN network server, a Firebase backend, and smartwatch apps on Android Wear OS (Kotlin) and watchOS (Swift). Conducted pilot operations in collaboration with several golf courses in South Korea.

Samsung Electronics

Staff Software Engineer

Samsung Electronics

LinkedIn
2017-3 - 2022-8 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Seoul, South Korea

Led software development for the Samsung Ballie smart home robot (CES 2020), implementing human pose tracking using C++, ROS2, MediaPipe and GStreamer; optimized video stream processing from 2 FPS to 8 FPS through dataset fine-tuning. Developed an Ethernet-based automotive communication protocol for an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system using C++, Java and JNI, enabling Android Auto integration and reliable data transfer.

Samsung Electronics

Senior Software Engineer

Samsung Electronics

LinkedIn
2013-3 - 2017-2 · 4 yrs

Seoul, South Korea

Designed and implemented the Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) communication protocol over CoAP, based on Wi-Fi and Ethernet for IoT devices, and integrated into the IoTivity open-source project. Managed deployments and troubleshooting, achieving a 25% improvement in software stability. Developed a low-power Bluetooth/BLE communication protocol between Android smartphones and smartwatch devices, improving connection reliability and reducing power consumption by 20%.

Samsung Electronics

Software Engineer

Samsung Electronics

LinkedIn
2009-2 - 2013-2 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Suwon, South Korea

Designed and led the architecture of an interaction framework for the Samsung Smart TV platform using C++, Adobe Flash. Supported third-party SDK integration and enabled distribution of 12 types of strategic content.

Samsung Software Membership

Software Engineer Internship

Samsung Software Membership

LinkedIn
2006-8 - 2009-1 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Seoul, South Korea

Developed CableCARD emulators on the Windows platform which provides direct communication via UART device interface with host (STB, DVR) and the functionality of CableCARDs without physical cards.

Techdigm Inc.

Software Engineer

Techdigm Inc.

2004-7 - 2006-7 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Busan, South Korea

Designed a data structure and converted data from various formats (PPT, DOC, XLS, RTF) into an internal standardized format, enhancing compatibility by 95%. This was a key feature of the office suite software commercialized as ‘Techdigm Office’.

Iestek

Research Engineer

Iestek

2003-9 - 2004-6 · 10 mos

Busan, South Korea

Developed GUI applications using GDI, GDI+, Cairo, Direct2D for ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) software based on the IHO S-57/IHO S-52 Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) standard.

Education

Chung-Ang University

Chung-Ang University

LinkedIn

Computer Science and Engineering

2003 - 2009 · 6 yrs
The University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia

LinkedIn
2007 - 2007

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