Engineer - Intelligent and Autonomous Systems

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-months contract opening for an Engineer.

About the team:

The Intelligent Complex Systems Team, currently a part of the Waterloo Research Centre, examines recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to determine its potential for broader applications. This innovative team researches AI challenges such as matching human capabilities and ensuring the safety of collaborative AI systems.

About the job:

• Participate in all the phases of the development of the project covering research, design, coding and testing.
• Design state of the art AI architectures leveraging your knowledge on Recursive Neural Network and foundational models.
• Enhance our capability to train our AI models building safety critical scenario datasets and training infrastructure.
• Develop proof of concepts to demonstrate the improved performance, safety and reliability compared to the baseline.

About the ideal candidate:

• PhD or MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Software engineering or System Engineering.
  
• 3+ years of experience with C++/Python Programming Languages to develop AI/ML algorithms in the autonomous driving or robotics fields.
• Demonstrated development experience with transformer-based models, foundational models, LLMs/VLMs, generative. modeling, imitation/reinforcement learning or recursive neural networks (LSTM, GRU).
• Experience on AI model optimization, leveraging prompt engineering including automatic prompt generation technologies
• Proven track record of generating new ideas or enhancing existing ones in machine learning field.
• Hands-on experience with modern deep learning libraries as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras and python development.