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 – Customer Program (Fintech AI), Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT)
location Tokyo
Engineer Researcher
Customer Program
Full Time

The Customer Program, one of our core sciences programs, builds models for customer understanding and applying them to customer targeting solutions.

Fintech AI is one of the research topics in the Customer Program and is positioned as an important research topic in the Rakuten Group (especially fintech businesses). The research members develop algorithms related to financial market.

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

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.

#datascientist #engineer #technologyservicediv #Python

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.