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.

The Vision Intelligence Engineering team (VIED) is a group of engineers, scientists, and product teams who specialize in computer vision and language, creative AI content generation (AIGC). We conduct state-of-the-art research and apply cutting-edge technologies, such as VLMs, diffusion models, GANs, transformers, distributed GPU training, among others, to a variety of Rakuten products and services. We seek passionate and skilled experts in machine learning research and engineering to join us in our journey to define the next-generation e-commerce experience.

As a Machine Learning Engineer in the VIED team, you will focus on developing and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions to revolutionize creative content generation for Rakuten's advertising platforms. Leveraging advanced techniques in computer vision, natural language processing, and generative AI, you will design and implement models that enable the automated creation of high-quality, personalized ad content at scale. Additionally, your work will directly contribute to enhancing Rakuten ecosystem, driving engagement, and delivering value to our global partners and customers.

Responsibility

• Build and optimize large-scale machine learning pipelines for applications such as image and video generation, text-to-image synthesis, and multimodal content creation.

• Explore and apply state-of-the-art technologies, such as transformers, vision-language models (VLMs), diffusion models, GANs, and large-scale pretraining techniques to push the boundaries of creative AI in advertising.

• Understand product objectives and machine learning techniques; improve model and strategy.

• Understand the diversity of Rakuten's business requirements, data, and assets; build cross-scenario technology backbones.

• Work with Rakuten cross-functional teams to grow Rakuten in important regional markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning, deep learning, or AI research and development, with a strong focus on computer vision, natural language processing, or generative AI.

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field. Exceptional candidates with a Bachelor's degree and significant experience will also be considered.

• Proficiency in building and deploying machine learning models for creative AI applications, such as text-to-image generation, image/video synthesis, or multimodal content generation.

• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Huggingface, or JAX.

• Expertise in distributed training of large-scale models on GPU clusters and optimizing performance for scalability.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

• Passion for technology and solving challenging problems.

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