Job description
Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher.
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 department offers a unique opportunity to leverage both technical and business skills.
About the job:
- Carry out research on next-generation emerging technologies related to AI and computing, survey the latest trends on a regular basis, and understand the technology evolution roadmap.
- Propose innovative architectures and algorithms to optimize distributed computing, considering scalability and efficiency.
- Model AI performance across various parallelization techniques and network topologies, with a strong focus on different architectures, including Transformers, State Space Models (SSMs), and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Conduct cutting-edge research on reinforcement learning, particularly its applications in multi-agent systems and distributed AI models.
- Evaluate and enhance AI performance under different parallelization strategies and network topologies.
- Explore and innovate at the intersection of AI algorithms and hardware, focusing on hardware-aware model optimization and efficient computation.
- Study the industry’s competitive landscape to learn the latest technical trends and to create insight.
- Proactively work to achieve challenging goals and create IP by innovative designs and architectures
Produce detailed documentation, technical reviews.
Job requirements
About the ideal candidate:
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or relevant discipline with at least 2 years of relevant experience.
- Deep knowledge of large generative and foundational AI models.
- Advanced knowledge of distributed computing and associated techniques including model, data, and pipeline parallelization.
- Strong understanding of the theory of deep neural networks (DNN), including their dynamics, stability, and learning algorithms.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing algorithms related to Transformers, State Space Models (SSMs), and Neural ODEs.
- Excellent programming skills (Python/C).
- Motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.
- Good teamwork spirit and adaptability.
- Thrive in a dynamic, innovative, and research-oriented environment focused on prototyping.
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