Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Senior 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:
Conduct advanced research and rapid prototyping in speech and audio AI, including speech enhancement, separation, recognition, speaker modeling, and audio-language/vision models.
Design, implement, and evaluate state-of-the-art deep learning architectures for speech and audio understanding.
Contribute to Huawei’s next-generation intelligent products, including smartphones, earbuds, wearables, and smart glasses, by developing innovative audio AI capabilities.
Collaborate closely with research scientists, software engineers, and product teams to translate research outcomes into deployable systems.
Stay current with emerging technologies in audio, multimodal, and large foundation models, and contribute to publications, patents, or product features.
Present research progress and findings to internal and external audiences.
The total target annual compensation (based on 2,080 hours per year) ranges from $127,000 to $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.
About the ideal candidate:
PhD or Master degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Speech and Audio Processing, Machine Learning, or a related field.
Strong background in speech/audio signal processing, including time–frequency analysis, speech enhancement, and feature extraction.
Hands-on experience developing and training deep learning models for speech, audio, or multimodal applications using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
Experience with speech foundation models, self-supervised audio pretraining, or multimodal learning (audio-language, audio-vision).
Proficiency in Python and solid experience in implementing, debugging, and optimizing research code for experiments and deployment.
Strong ability to prototype quickly, conduct comprehensive evaluations, and iterate based on experimental results.
Experience deploying AI models into real-time or embedded systems for mobile or wearable devices. Familiarity with datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics commonly used in speech processing and audio-language tasks.
Proven research record demonstrated by first-authored papers, patents, or released systems in top-tier venues (e.g., ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL).
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's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Speech and Audio Processing, or Machine Learning
- Strong background in speech/audio signal processing
- Hands-on experience with deep learning models in speech, audio, or multimodal applications
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience deploying AI models into real-time systems
- Proven research record with publications or patents
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.
