JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)
August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
CyberAgent, Inc.
Position Title/Short Description
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, JAPAN
JEL Classifications:
C -- Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
D -- Microeconomics
D9 -- Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
L -- Industrial Organization
M -- Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics
Keywords:
Economics
Econometrics
Micro-economics
Causal Inference
Data analysis
Mechanism Design
Behavioral economics
Reinforcement Learning
AI/ML
Marketing
Industrial organization
Full Text of JOE Listing:
Who We Are
CyberAgent is a leading Japanese company experiencing rapid growth in the internet industry.
Within the CyberAgent Group, the AI Tech Studio division focuses on developing cutting-edge services in the digital marketing domain and houses a research and development organization called "AILab." Not only does AILab aim to solve business challenges, but it also strives to contribute to academia through the use of advanced AI research technologies and proactive collaboration with universities and academic institutions. It is a rare research organization in Japan that has a dedicated economics research team.
Team members and paper acceptance track record:
https://cyberagent.ai/ailab/research/econ/
Field Of Research:
- Causal Inference
- Experiment Design
- Machine Learning Method for predicting CATE/ITE/Uplift
- Off-Policy Evaluation/Learning
- Application of Mechanism Design
- Demand Estimation
- Pricing
- Information Intervention
- Evaluation of Bandit / Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
※The theme is not limited to the above
Regarding the recruitment positions:
In the AI Lab Economics Team, we are looking for researchers who focus on cutting-edge theoretical and applied research in economics combined with machine learning. In this position, our goal is to submit research results to top international journals such as Econometrica, and top conferences such as AAAI, ICML, KDD, Recsys, and NeurIPS.
We are offering a Research Scientist (Permanent) position.
Please refer to the following for the details of the position.
Research Scientist (Permanent)
This is a permanent position. The main goal of this role is to publish research papers that address real-world problems while communicating with the business side. Therefore, a business-level proficiency in Japanese is required.
Requirements for positions:
- A Ph.D. in Economics, Business, or a closely related field
- Candidates with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an interest in economics are also welcome
- Demonstrated ability to write and publish research papers as the lead author in peer-reviewed conferences and journals
- Capability to reproduce research results and conduct further studies based on existing papers
- Proficiency in R and/or Python, as well as other statistical analysis tools
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work with team members from diverse backgrounds, such as researchers from different disciplines, data scientists, and engineers
Application Requirements:
- Letters of Reference
- Research Papers
- Cover Letter
- CV