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Researcher - AI

    • Edmonton, Alberta
  • n61b2

Job description

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:

  • Research and development of GenAI algorithms for system optimization on edge devices, with measurable wins in latency, power, and quality.

  • Collaborate closely with researchers to prototype, implement, and integrate research ideas into production-grade code.

  • Design and run rigorous experiments on internal and public benchmarks; build reproducible pipelines, ablations, and statistical analyses.

  • Stay current with literature; distill insights; propose and drive new directions.

Job requirements

About the ideal candidate:

  • MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent research/engineering experience).

  • Solid ML/AI foundations with hands-on GenAI experience (e.g., Diffusion Models and Large Language Models).

  • Experience in application-driven research, demonstrated in projects or publications.

  • Strong system development skills, such as Python (including PyTorch), C/C++, Linux shell scripting.

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

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