Rakuten Group

Rakuten, founded in 1997, is a Global Innovation Company based in Japan. With over 70 diverse businesses spanning e-commerce, digital content, fintech, and communications, and 32,000 employees, we serve 1.6 billion members worldwide. Our mission is to empower people and society through innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Rakuten Tech in Europe  

Rakuten Tech in Europe, a part of the Rakuten Group's Global Innovation Hub, serves as the regional hub for the European-based members of the Technology Division. We provide and optimize global platforms to support businesses within the Rakuten Ecosystem, tailoring them to specific use cases in Europe and beyond.

With over 130 members across 7 countries and 12 offices, our presence spans France (Paris), Spain (Barcelona), UK (Belfast and London), Estonia (Tallinn), and Germany (Berlin). Our diverse team is formed of more than 20 nationalities and collaborates with all members of the Technology Divisions on a regular basis.

Team’s presentation

Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) is the Research and Innovation Department of Rakuten, with teams spread across the globe. RIT is a unique environment for scientific research and innovations in the domain of Human-Computer Interactions, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.  

Position’s description

The candidate is expected to develop prototypes which will be evaluated according to scientific and business criteria and may participate in the deployment into production.

In particular, the candidate will work on textual and visual data from e-commerce catalogs such as Rakuten Ichiba which contains millions of products coming from different merchants an used by millions of users. Related tasks include the extraction of semantics from product data and improving recommender systems.

Your specific missions will be:

• Communicate with the relevant business units (such as the e-commerce catalog teams) and other technical teams to analyze their issues
• Formalize the problems and study the state of the art
• Define a project roadmap, design solutions, develop prototypes, and participate in the production and integration phases
• Periodically communicate with other RIT teams and present your projects within and outside of Rakuten
• Publish the results of research activities and participate in scientific conferences

Profile

• PhD in machine learning or a related field
• At least 3 years of experience in AI research
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as Torch, TensorFlow, JAX
• Prior experience with modern neural networks architectures, e.g., Transformers, Graph NNs
• A proven track record of publications at top-tier conferences
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Fluent English

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation ranges
• Bonus  
• Stock-option 
• Flexible working hours  
• Hybrid teleworking policy with 3 remote days per week & 20 remote days abroad per year 
• Access to learning and career development resources  
• Access to certifications and tech conferences  
• Being part of multicultural teams with more than 20 nationalities  
• More than 35 days' holiday a year (25 days' paid holiday and 12 days' recuperation, including 6 days offered by the company)
• Coupons for Rakuten Platform (20 euros per month)  
• Office in Sentier neighbourhood