Why Join
Rakuten Research

01Vast and exciting data

The Rakuten Group offers a full range of services related to daily life, from shopping and online payment to telecommunications, travel, and finance. The vast amount of diverse data we are able to generate and access makes research at RIT dynamic and exciting.

02Real business-related research

At RIT, your research will be put to real use and exposed to millions people around the world every day.

03One global team

Rakuten has six global offices, but no matter where we are in the world, we share the same challenges and successes as one team.

04Choose the best field for your personal growth

We provide an environment to learn, grow and engage with excellent researchers around the world. Receive guidance from renowned scientist and AI researchers and start exciting conversations with you peers.

CAREERS

Senior Research Scientist, Responsible AI – Rakuten Institute of Technology(RIT)
location Tokyo
Engineer Researcher
Others
Full Time

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

Research Scientist – Campaign Science, Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT)
location Tokyo
Engineer Researcher
Campaign Science Customer Program
Full Time

At our Campaign Science Team,  we are conducting cutting-edge research in the areas of reinforcement learning and bandit algorithms, with the goal of enhancing user experience and marketing efficiency for businesses within the Rakuten group.

We are looking for talented research scientists with a robust strong research background and a strong motivation to join an exciting team that is constantly evolving and pushing the envelope on AI and its applications.

Data Science Engineer – Customer Geo Science Group , Rakuten Institute of Technology Tokyo (RIT)
location Tokyo
Engineer
Customer Geo Science Group Customer Program
Full Time

With more than 70 different services in the Rakuten Group globally, our data science teams cover diverse initiatives in both the online and offline worlds. Offline Geo data and Geo Science applications are key to the optimization and overall success in fields including Logistics, Site Planning, Area Marketing and improving Customer Experience. The Geo Science Team creates algorithms and builds new Geo Intelligence layers to better understand offline activity to support many Rakuten Group services.

We are looking for talented Data Science Engineers with a strong background in at least one of the related fields (user behavior, marketing, fintech, geo-spatial data or full-stack data science product development) and a strong motivation to join an exciting team that is constantly evolving and pushing the boundaries on AI and its applications.

Computer Vision Researcher, Vision Program
location Tokyo
Researcher
Vision Program
Full Time

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.

Senior Research Scientist, Language Program
location Tokyo
Researcher
Language Program
Full Time

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.