Researcher - AI Deep Learning

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher.

About the team:

The Software-Hardware System Optimization Lab continuously improves the power efficiency and performance of smartphone products through software-hardware systems optimization and architecture innovation. We keep tracking the trends of cutting-edge technologies, building the competitive strength of mobile AI, graphics, multimedia, and software architecture for mobile phone products.

About the job:

• Build optimized deep learning architectures for computer vision or natural language processing tasks.

• Optimize DL models on various hardware.

• Read academic papers and keep up-to-date with recent advances.

• Design, implement and integrate models and algorithms.

• Evaluate, analyze and drive insights from experiments.

• Closely collaborate with researchers and provide solutions for engineers.

• Publish scientific papers.

About the ideal candidate:

• MS/Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering, or related fields.

• Experience in applying deep learning models to computer vision or natural language processing tasks, and demonstrating through work experience, internships, or projects.

• Experience in Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.

• Excellent communication skills, self-motivated, with creative thinking and attention to details.

• Strong software development skills.

• Hands-on experience and excellent knowledge with at least one deep learning architecture (Transformers, GNN, CNN, GAN, LSTM, VAE, ...).

• Publications in top tier conferences.

• Experience in Bayesian Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Algorithms, Pruning, Knowledge Distillation, Quantization.