CAREERS

As part of our research at the Rakuten Institute of Technology, Responsible AI is one of the primary focuses. Through collaboration with all AI-related stakeholders, our objective is to enhance the safety, fairness, and transparency of AI within the Rakuten Group. 

Our activities encompass the following:

– Developing guidelines for AI construction and evaluation

– Establishing AI evaluation tools and processes

– Researching on AI safety, fairness, bias, transparency, and explainability

– Educating internal stakeholders about Responsible AI initiatives

The Vision Program, which is one of our core science programs, aims to process and understand images and videos using advanced computer vision and machine learning. We are working in areas such as estimating product attributes for large-scale image datasets for creating catalogs, robust document image understanding for smooth customer onboarding, image generation and enhancement for attractive, personalized recommendations, and other applications to handle the large amount of visual data in Rakuten’s businesses. We are interested in leveraging techniques to increase efficiency during model training and deployment.

The Vision Program is looking for a research scientist with strong research background in the field of computer vision & machine learning who is motivated to join our team.

The Language program, which is one of our core science programs, aims to automatically create a well-organized product catalog using advanced NLP and ML technologies to generate structured information from unstructured product titles, descriptions, and images. We are also interested in leveraging weakly/semi-supervised and unsupervised techniques to incorporate signals beyond traditional sources, such as customer behavior data, to augment our language understanding. We are looking for research scientists with a strong research background in the NLP field and strong motivation to join the Language program.