Senior Researcher – Computer Vision & Human-Centered AI

Huawei Canada has an immediate Permanent opening for a Senior 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:

• Define and advance research directions in computer vision spatial perception and human-centered AI.

• Develop algorithms for 2D/3D scene understanding tracking hand and gesture recognition depth estimation and real-time reconstruction.

• Develop efficient small-model pipelines for real-time detection tracking temporal modeling and interaction-state recognition.

• Integrate vision foundation models VLMs and LLMs with lightweight perception components to enable spatial reasoning and agentic workflows.

• Optimize end-to-end vision systems for accuracy latency power memory and hardware constraints.

• Establish datasets evaluation frameworks success metrics and technical milestones.

• Build high-quality prototypes support product integration and contribute to design reviews and mentoring.

The total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $127000 - $225000 depending on education experience and demonstrated expertise.

About the ideal candidate:

• PhD in Computer Science Engineering Robotics AI or a related field or a masters degree with substantial industry R&D experience.

• 5 years of applied R&D experience in computer vision spatial computing robotics or intelligent devices.

• Demonstrated ownership of complex perception or machine-learning systems from research through product delivery.

• Deep expertise in several areas including detection segmentation tracking hand pose estimation 3D vision camera geometry and sensor calibration.

• Experience developing and deploying compact models using distillation pruning quantization ONNX TensorRT TFLite OpenVINO or NPU acceleration.

• Strong Python and C/C skills with experience building real-time video-processing pipelines.

• Track record demonstrated through shipped products impactful prototypes patents or publications with strong collaboration and mentoring skills.

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.