Sponsored PhD: Personalization & Long-Context LLMs

Rakuten Kobo Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Asia, in partnership with the Economic Development Board (IPP), seeks PhD students to advance personalization and long-context modeling in large language models. Candidates should have strong hands-on ML/DL/NLP skills and experience in developing and training PyTorch models.

Joint supervision and shared infrastructure enable large-scale experiments, publications, open-source prototypes, and scalable frameworks for personalized LLM deployment, with full sponsorship for postgraduate

Qualifications

• Robust understanding of deep learning, ML and NLP required.
• Hands-on expertise in developing/training PyTorch models.

Responsibilities

• Joint supervision of PhD students with IPP, shared infra for large-scale experiments.
• Output includes publications, open-source prototypes, and scalable LLM deployment frameworks.

Skills

Deep learning

Machine learning

Natural language processing

PyTorch

Tools

Python

Job description

Rakuten Asia, in partnership with the Economic Development Board (IPP), seeks PhD students to advance personalization and long-context modeling in large language models. Candidates should have strong hands-on ML/DL/NLP skills and experience in developing and training PyTorch models.

Joint supervision and shared infrastructure enable large-scale experiments, publications, open-source prototypes, and scalable frameworks for personalized LLM deployment, with full sponsorship for postgraduate