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 the largest e-Commerce company in Japan, and provides a variety of services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to many users all over the world.
About the Team
The Rakuten AI & Data Division (AIDD), creates powerful, customer-focused search, recommendation, data science, advertising, marketing, price, and inventory optimization solutions to a variety of businesses in commerce, fintech and mobile industries. As part of AIDD, AILab is a group focuses on incubating early-stage efforts to create new ways to advance products through exploration and the application of AI technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Rakuten service. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes using AI.
Why we hire
We are looking for machine learning engineer intern to work on next generation AI search experience. In this role, you will be at the forefront of development, and implementation of cutting-edge techniques for LLM solutions including prompt engineering, RAG, model fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference capabilities.

Your Role will involve

• Develop and optimize algorithms to address real-world product challenges, enhancing accuracy and relevance to deliver a superior user experience.
• Evaluate product performance and drive improvements through data-driven insights.
• Collaborate closely with project managers and research scientists to enhance the performance of large language model (LLM) systems.

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor or higher degree in computer science or a related technical discipline.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, C++, or Java
• Strong understanding of data structures and machine learning algorithms.

Additional or Preferred Qualification

• Experience with search and chat technologies, e.g., content understanding, user understanding, recall, ranking, agents, and large language models (LLMs)
• Practical engineering experience with the ability to independently analyze and solve problems
• Self-motivated with a strong passion for tackling real-world product challenges.

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

• Develop and optimize algorithms to address real-world product challenges, enhancing accuracy and relevance to deliver a superior user experience.
• Evaluate product performance and drive improvements through data-driven insights.
• Collaborate closely with project managers and research scientists to enhance the performance of large language model (LLM) systems