Applied AI Researcher – Multimodal Intelligence

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

About the team:

The Huawei Human-Machine Interaction Lab unites global researchers engineers and designers to redefine human technology relationships through user centered hands on research. We focus on agentic AI and multimodal interaction (voice touch vision gesture) across smartphones wearables and emerging devicesadvancing agentic workflows multi-agent orchestration and intuitive human-AI interfaces. By tightly integrating sensing algorithms and systems our prototype driven work ships directly to products enabling seamless task delegation and human AI collaboration at scale.

About the job:

• Research prototype and evaluate new AI/ML technologies for multimodal human-machine interaction across speech/audio vision language touch gesture motion and other device sensors

• Rapidly reproduce and extend promising approaches from research papers open-source projects and emerging AI technologies assessing applicability to real product scenarios

• Design and implement models and experimental systems for multimodal perception cross-modal fusion context understanding and intelligent interaction

• Train fine-tune adapt or integrate ML and foundation models and build practical prototypes that demonstrate capabilities on real devices

• Design rigorous experiments to evaluate model quality failure modes robustness latency memory usage and other product-relevant trade-offs

• Collaborate with researchers engineers designers and product teams to translate research results into compelling demonstrations and product solutions

• Communicate findings through technical presentations documentation and experimental results and contribute to patents or publications when appropriate

The total target annual compensation (based on 2080 hours per year) ranges from $106000 - $156000 depending on education experience and demonstrated expertise.

About the ideal candidate:

• Masters or PhD in CS EE/CE AI ML Statistics HCI or related field

• At least 2 years of relevant research or industry experience including graduate research where applicable

• Strong foundation in ML/deep learning with hands-on experience in PyTorch TensorFlow JAX or similar frameworks

• Demonstrated research ability through graduate research industry R&D publications patents or open-source contributions

• Hands-on experience in at least one relevant area: speech/audio computer vision multimodal learning NLP generative AI foundation models HCI or sensor-based interaction

• Strong Python skills able to independently develop and debug non-trivial research prototypes (Typescript / Kotlin C/Java a plus)

• Ability to reproduce recent research design meaningful experiments and critically analyze results rather than relying only on existing APIs

• Strong analytical skills and ability to turn ambiguous technical ideas into working prototypes in a fast-moving environment

Additional Information:

Huawei Canada is committed to a fair inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require accommodation during any stage of the hiring process please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

All applications for this position are reviewed directly by our hiring team we do not use artificial intelligence tools to screen or select candidates.