## Full Description
Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Strategic Research Engineer.
About the team:
The Technology Planning and Cooperation Department promotes strategic innovation across all of Huawei Canada. Working with fellow experts, the focus is researching new and upcoming areas of technology as well as strategic planning to help achieve long term vision of Huawei. This departmentoffers a unique opportunity to leverage both technical and business skills.
About the job:
- Survey, analyze, identify, and envision significant innovations in fundamental and applied AI.
- Produce brief reports and systematic analyses on important innovations and trends.
- Communicate with collaborating teams to promote innovations with substantive potential.
Job requirements
About the ideal candidate:
- PhD or comparable R&D experience in computer science or related fields with a focus on AI.
- Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills.
- Publications at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, CoLM, CoLLAs, RLC, RLDM, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RSS, etc.
- Research focus and up-to-date expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Computer vision, multimodal generative AI and multimodal foundation models;
- NLP, LLM, and LLM-based AI assistants and agents;
- Embodied intelligence, spatial intelligence, and robotics; and
- Fundamental deep learning and reinforcement learning methods, architectures, and algorithms.
- Keen insight and analytical ability of future computing.
- Strong capabilities of teamwork and self-learning.
- Work experience in both academic and industrial institutions is an asset.