Researcher-AI Agents

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Markham, ON, CAN
In-Office
127K-225K Annually
Entry level
Information Technology • Other
The Role
Conduct research on AI agents, LLMs, VLMs, code generation, and multimodal AI. Develop GUI, coding, web, mobile, and computer-use agents; create training pipelines, datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks; and investigate supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, tool use, and function calling. Analyze experiments, publish findings, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and translate research prototypes into practical technologies.
Summary Generated by Built In
Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month opening for a Researcher Position

About the Team:

Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving.

About the job

  • Conduct research on AI agents, LLMs, VLMs, code generation, and multimodal AI, with a focus on novel and impactful research problems.

  • Design and develop GUI agents and coding agents for web, mobile, and computer-use environments.

  • Develop and investigate new approaches for SFT, reinforcement learning, agent training, tool use, and function calling.

  • Build research prototypes, datasets, training pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks to validate new ideas.

  • Conduct rigorous experiments and analyze results to advance the state of the art.

  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate research ideas into practical systems and technologies.

  • Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and journals and communicate results through technical presentations and publications.

  • Translate research ideas and prototypes into practical, product-ready technologies, working closely with engineering and product teams.

The targeted annual total compensation for this position ranges from $127,000 to $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

About the ideal candidate:

  • A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.

  • Strong background in one or more areas including LLMs, VLMs, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, code generation, AI agents, computer vision, NLP.

  • LLM/VLM SFT, reinforcement learning, RLHF/RLVR, preference optimization, or other post-training techniques.

  • GUI agents, web agents, computer-use agents, or mobile agents.

  • Strong programming and implementation skills, particularly in Python, with hands-on experience using modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.

  • Strong research ability, including problem formulation, algorithm design, experimental evaluation, and technical analysis.

  • Ability to independently identify promising research directions and turn ideas into working prototypes and experimental results.

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

  • Publications in venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, or related top-tier venues.

  • Agentic systems, tool use, function calling, MCP, or multi-step planning.

  • Code generation, coding agents, program synthesis, or software engineering agents.

  • UI code generation or automated web/application development.

  • Web technologies and browser automation, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, Playwright, or browser APIs.

  • Large-scale data generation, synthetic data, trajectory collection, or agent training.

  • Model distillation, efficient inference, particularly for small/edge models.

  • Experience with distributed training and large-scale GPU systems.

Additional Information

Huawei Canada is committed to a fair, inclusive, and accessible recruitment process. If you require accommodation during any stage of the hiring process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

All applications for this position are reviewed directly by our hiring team, we do not use artificial intelligence tools to screen or select candidates.

Skills Required

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent research experience
  • Strong background in LLMs, VLMs, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, code generation, AI agents, computer vision, or NLP
  • Experience with LLM/VLM supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, RLHF/RLVR, preference optimization, or other post-training techniques
  • Experience with GUI agents, web agents, computer-use agents, or mobile agents
  • Strong Python programming and implementation skills
  • Hands-on experience with modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
  • Strong research ability, including problem formulation, algorithm design, experimental evaluation, and technical analysis
  • Ability to independently identify research directions and develop working prototypes and experimental results
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, or related top-tier venues
  • Experience with agentic systems, tool use, function calling, MCP, or multi-step planning
  • Experience with code generation, coding agents, program synthesis, or software engineering agents
  • Experience with UI code generation or automated web/application development
  • Knowledge of web technologies and browser automation, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, Playwright, or browser APIs
  • Experience with large-scale data generation, synthetic data, trajectory collection, or agent training
  • Experience with model distillation and efficient inference for small or edge models
  • Experience with distributed training and large-scale GPU systems
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The Company
HQ: Sham Chun Hu
1,770 Employees
Year Founded: 1987

What We Do

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. We have approximately 197,000 employees and we operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. In Canada, Huawei conducts innovative and leading edge research in 5G technologies, along with advanced development of emerging cloud, device and network technologies & services. While our renowned Canada Research Centre in the thriving technology landscape of Ottawa, Ontario continues to grow rapidly in size and strategic product initiatives, additional presence has also been established across Canada with R&D facilities in Vancouver, Edmonton, Waterloo, Markham, Montreal, and a R&D office in Quebec City.

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