Tokyo Rakuten Full time

Description

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Business Overview

Rakuten is one of the largest internet service companies globally, providing more than 70 services spanning e-commerce, finance, telecommunications, sports, and more to approximately 1.4 billion customers. Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) is the dedicated Research and Innovation department of Rakuten, with teams in Tokyo, Paris, Boston, San Mateo, Singapore, and Bengaluru.

Department Overview

The Language program aims to automatically create well-organized product catalogs using advanced NLP and ML technologies to generate structured information from unstructured product titles, descriptions, and images. We leverage weakly/semi-supervised and unsupervised techniques to incorporate signals beyond traditional sources, such as customer behavior data, to augment our language understanding.

Position:

Why We Hire

We have a huge amount of real business data, powerful computer environments, and brilliant scientists and engineers that empower people and society through AI technologies. We hire research scientists to scale up our ability of empowerment. You will be excited that the cutting-edge technologies you develop have an enormous impact on real businesses.

Position Details

  • Design algorithms and build prototype systems to solve defined, scientific problems.
  • Demonstrate algorithms/prototype systems to business stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with engineers to deploy algorithms/prototype systems into production services.
  • Collaborate with other scientists on research and paper publications.
  • Participate in scientific conferences and contribute to the scientific community with paper publications.

Mandatory Qualifications:

  • Ph.D. in computer science, related research field, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong publication record at top conferences and journals in NLP, machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, or other related research fields.
  • English fluency for communicating with researchers, engineers, and business stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in reading and processing Japanese text (our product catalog is written in Japanese).
  • Coding skills: fluency in Python.
  • Model development skills: fluency in PyTorch.
  • Experience with Linux environment.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Coding skills: fluency in C/C++/Java.
  • Experience in distributed computing such as Spark and Hadoop.
  • Japanese fluency for communicating with researchers, engineers, and business stakeholders.

Additional information on Secondment:

None

Additional information on English Qualification:

English (Overall - 4 - Fluent)



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