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:
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