Software Development Intern, AI Lab

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. For more information, visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/.

About Rakuten 

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. 

Department overview 

The Rakuten Technology Service Division, 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.   

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 to hire a motivated engineer to bring the power of our AI technology to the next generation AI-based user interaction.  As a Software Engineer Intern, you'll be working on developing AI-based avatar solutions. This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about AI and excited to work on cutting-edge projects. If you’re curious, innovative, and ready to take on a challenge, we’d love to hear from you 

Must Have: 

• Debugging and problem-solving skills  

• Strong front-end development skills: HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript 

• Experience with application frameworks such as React.js 

• Backend experience with Python  

• Full-stack experience with some backend experience with Node.js 

• Experience in an Agile product development environment 

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes