Rakuten - Senior Research Scientist

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Solve complex business problems of global organizations by applying AI, Machine Learning and NLP techniques, especially Deep Learning and/or Reinforcement Learning.

- Build AI Roadmaps and develop cognitive capabilities in multiple product and solution offerings.

- Design and develop PoCs to showcase innovative ideas that solve problems of interest to Rakuten.

- Systemic study of the latest research and industry developments in Artificial Intelligence. Leverage these developments to solve real-world business problems.

- Envisage next-generation challenges and recommend solutions to solve them.

- Facilitate the IP generation process in the organization and work towards patenting of inventions.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to succinctly convey research findings to remote managers/peers.

Experience :

- Ph.D/MS. in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning or related areas.

- Hands-on experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

- Strong expertise in TensorFlow, Keras, Theano and/or PyTorch.

Proficiency in two or more of these areas :

- Natural Language Processing (NLP)

- Computer Vision

- Reinforcement Learning

- Information Retrieval (IR)

- Speech and Voice Recognition

- Social Intelligence

- Expertise in using Deep Neural Networks for complex pattern recognition.

Personal Skills :

- Ability to understand complex system architecture and components.

- Ability to work on complex, highly visible, global engagements under minimal supervision.

- Ability to successfully operate in a fast-paced, dynamic and high-pressure environment.

Experience: 3 to 8 Years

Job Location : Bangalore.