Backend Development Engineer, Generative AI

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.

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Department overview

Search Department focuses on Search, Discovery, and Navigation experience for users of Rakuten. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems used by millions of Rakuten customers every day. We strive to deliver the most innovative solutions that are helpful to people and societies around the world.

Why we hire

We are looking for a backend software engineer to work on next generation AI native experience. In this role, you will be at the forefront of development, and implementation of cutting-edge techniques for LLM solutions including prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference capabilities.

Position Details

• Explore and implement the most recent technologies and approaches for AI native user experience and build innovative products on top of LLM platform.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to implement projects harnessing LLMs for diverse purposes and vertical domains.
• Design and develop a high-performance platform capable of handling and processing large volumes of requests efficiently.

Qualification

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors with minimum 3-5 years of experience
• Extensive experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: Java, Golang and C++
• Excellent problem-analysis and -solving skills, have industry experience in building backend services for large-scale distributed system
• Good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong execution skills and have a problem-solving mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Maintain a deep passion for contributing to the success of LLM is essential in this innovative and fast-paced team environment.
• Experience in serving Deep Learning models on framework TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost etc.
• Familiar with LLM's and supporting tools such as LangChain (Optional)

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