Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher.
About the team:
The Huawei Human-Machine Interaction Lab unites global researchers, engineers, and designers to redefine human technology relationships through user centered, hands on research. We focus on agentic AI and multimodal interaction (voice, touch, vision, gesture) across smartphones, wearables, and emerging devices—advancing agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, and intuitive human-AI interfaces. By tightly integrating sensing, algorithms, and systems, our prototype driven work ships directly to products, enabling seamless task delegation and human AI collaboration at scale.
About the job:
Research, prototype, and evaluate new AI/ML technologies for multimodal human-machine interaction across speech/audio, vision, language, touch, gesture, motion, and other device sensors
Rapidly reproduce and extend promising approaches from research papers, open-source projects, and emerging AI technologies, assessing applicability to real product scenarios
Design and implement models and experimental systems for multimodal perception, cross-modal fusion, context understanding, and intelligent interaction
Train, fine-tune, adapt, or integrate ML and foundation models, and build practical prototypes that demonstrate capabilities on real devices
Design rigorous experiments to evaluate model quality, failure modes, robustness, latency, memory usage, and other product-relevant trade-offs
Collaborate with researchers, engineers, designers, and product teams to translate research results into compelling demonstrations and product solutions
Communicate findings through technical presentations, documentation, and experimental results, and contribute to patents or publications when appropriate
The total target annual compensation (based on 2,080 hours per year) ranges from $106,000 - $156,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.
About the ideal candidate:
Master's or PhD in CS, EE/CE, AI, ML, Statistics, HCI, or related field
At least 2 years of relevant research or industry experience, including graduate research where applicable
Strong foundation in ML/deep learning with hands-on experience in PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar frameworks
Demonstrated research ability through graduate research, industry R&D, publications, patents, or open-source contributions
Hands-on experience in at least one relevant area: speech/audio, computer vision, multimodal learning, NLP, generative AI, foundation models, HCI, or sensor-based interaction
Strong Python skills, able to independently develop and debug non-trivial research prototypes (Typescript / Kotlin, C++/Java a plus)
Ability to reproduce recent research, design meaningful experiments, and critically analyze results rather than relying only on existing APIs
Strong analytical skills and ability to turn ambiguous technical ideas into working prototypes in a fast-moving environment
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
- PhD or Master graduates in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, or related field
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals
- Hands-on experience in deep learning model development
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with major deep learning frameworks
- Strong implementation and debugging skills
- Ability to translate research ideas into working prototypes
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.
