Research Scientist Intern

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/

As the Research Intern at the Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) Singapore, you will apply state-of-the-art research techniques to arrive at novel solutions to business problems in the NLP domain focusing on machine translation and large language models.

The team is working on a variety of NLP research and development projects that empower the globalization of Rakuten with multilingual NLP techniques.

Responsibilities:

Research and development of cutting-edge NLP techniques, including but not limited to the following:

• Multilingual Translation Systems
• Evaluation of Large Language Models
• LLM Deployment and Efficiency
• Advanced NLP techniques (Mixture of Experts, Knowledge Distillation, Synthetic Data Generation etc.)

Qualifications:

• Master or PhD students from related areas, e.g., computer science, machine learning, mathematics, etc. PhD preferred.
• Good publication records in top-tier conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, etc.
• Good programming skills, familiar with deep learning models and major deep learning programming frameworks, especially PyTorch and Hugging Face.
• Self-driven, innovative, collaborative, good communication and presentation skills.

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