Hybrid Research Scientist Intern na Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd.

Job Description:

Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.

Rakuten Group, Inc. is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses, and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications to approximately 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has nearly 32,000 employees and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/

Responsibilities:

• Research, design, and implement cutting-edge NLP techniques, including:

• Developing and fine-tuning vertical Large Language Models (LLMs) for specific domains such as Travel, Fintech, and Product Recommendation.

• Exploring and implementing advanced NLP techniques such as conversational agents, synthetic data generation methods, and multilingual processing approaches.

• Conduct experiments, analyze results, and iterate on models to improve performance.

• Prepare and contribute to research publications for submission to top-tier conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS)

• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers to integrate research findings into real-world applications.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP and machine learning.

Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field. PhD candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

• Proven track record of publications in top-tier NLP/ML conferences (ACL, EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, etc.).

• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.

• Ability to work independently and collaborative in a fast-paced research environment.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Passion for solving real-world problems with NLP.

Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief, or age.