Computer Vision Researcher, Vision Program - Rakuten Institute of Technology Tokyo(RIT)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

Rakuten is the one of the largest internet services company globally and provides more than 70 services spanning eCommerce, finance, telecommunication, sports and much more to over 1.4 billion customers worldwide. Rakuten Institute of Technology is the R&D lab of Rakuten group with teams in Tokyo, Boston, San Mateo, Paris, Singapore and Bangalore and is in charge of the “core science” part of Rakuten AI platform programs.

Department Overview

The Vision Program, which is one of our core science programs, aims to process and understand images and videos using advanced computer vision and machine learning. We are working in areas such as estimating product attributes for large-scale image datasets for creating catalogs, robust document image understanding for smooth customer onboarding, image generation and enhancement for attractive, personalized recommendations, and other applications to handle the large amount of visual data in Rakuten's businesses. We are interested in leveraging weakly-, semi-, and unsupervised techniques to reduce labeling costs as well as techniques to increase efficiency during model training and deployment.

The Vision Program is looking for a research scientist with strong research background in the field of computer vision & machine learning and motivation to join our team.

Some areas of our interest:

• Computer Vision for e-commerce (learning from Big data, Weakly/semi-/unsupervised learning, Domain adaptation, OCR)
• Creative AI (automatic banner generation, image enhancement, CTR/CVR prediction)
• Computer Vision for Fintech (eKYC, Face authentication, OCR, Document Analysis)
• Image/Video inspection for Mobile service (e.g. automatic visual inspection of an antenna from drone-based video footage) 
• Video analysis for Rakuten's streaming video platform (e.g. Non-family safe content detection, anomaly scene detection)

Why We Hire

The Vision Program Group is expanding to leverage image and video data for various use cases, from automating document reading, video content prediction and image quality enhancement. We are looking for researchers with strong skills in computer vision and machine learning. You will be a member of a driven, international team and have real business impact.

Position Details

• Define scientific problems to achieve academic and business outcomes
• Communicate with business stakeholders to understand requirements
• Create and support business outcomes by R&D
• Participate in conferences and contribute to the scientific community

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Masters degree related to computer vision, machine learning or related research field
• At least 3 years experience working in computer vision or machine learning research (academia or industry) after receiving the degree 
• Coding skills: Python, C++, or others, familiarity with vision and machine learning frameworks, e.g. PyTorch, Fastai, TensorFlow, sci-kit learn, OpenCV
• English fluency for communicating with researchers, engineers and business groups

Desired Qualifications:

•  Doctoral degree in computer vision, machine learning, or related research field 
• International publication record 
• Track record of projects (github repo) 
• Web-programming knowledge (Linux/JavaScript)
• Familiarity with source control (git)