Research Engineer – Multimodal AI & Interaction

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent 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 design and build next-generation multimodal AI capabilities for intelligent consumer devices spanning speech/audio vision language touch gesture motion and contextual sensing

• Identify high-impact research problems and own projects from early exploration through model development evaluation and product-oriented validation

• Design train fine-tune and evaluate deep learning and foundation models for multimodal perception reasoning interaction and generation

• Develop new approaches for reasoning across modalities to enable more natural adaptive human-machine interaction

• Rapidly prototype research ideas reproduce state-of-the-art methods and evolve promising concepts into robust demonstrations

• Build datasets and evaluation methodologies run rigorous experiments and establish metrics reflecting both model performance and real interaction quality

• Optimize models for real-world constraints (latency memory power privacy robustness on-device vs. cloud) and collaborate across research engineering and product teams

• Contribute reproducible code documentation and IP through publications patents or open-source projects when appropriate

The total target annual compensation for this position 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 Math HCI or related field (exceptional Bachelors candidates considered)

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

• Technical depth in multimodal learning speech/audio computer vision NLP generative AI or foundation models

• Experience with LLMs/VLMs agentic AI multi-agent systems or context-aware intelligent systems is a strong asset

• Track record turning research into working systems: prototypes open-source patents publications or shipped products

• End-to-end ML development experience: data prep training evaluation debugging optimization deployment

• Understanding of practical AI trade-offs (quality latency compute memory robustness) and on-device/resource-constrained deployment

• 3 years relevant research or industry experience (including graduate research) with strong Python (Typescript / Kotlin C/Java a plus) and collaboration skills across teams

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.