Chief Scientist – Multimodal AI Systems

Zürich - Switzerland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Huawei

Huawei is a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT) building the digital and intelligent infrastructure that powers more than 170 countries and regions and serves over one-third of the worlds population. With more than 180000 employees Huawei invests heavily in fundamental research system architecture and long-term technological leadership.

Huaweis Research Centers in Lausanne and Zurich are core pillars of the companys global research network responsible for defining the evolution of computer architecture and AI systems that will underpin the next generation of intelligent platforms.

We are launching a new Computer Architecture Innovation Lab in Switzerland with a single mission:
to define how multimodal AI systems will be built trained and deployed at planetary scale over the next decade.

We are seeking a Chief Scientist to provide scientific and architectural leadership for Huaweis multimodal AI platform. This role is responsible for setting the technical vision driving long-term research programs and ensuring tight co-design between models software infrastructure and hardware.

This is not an execution role.
It is a technology leadership mandate.

The Chief Scientist will:

Define the architectural roadmap for large multimodal foundation models
Guide the evolution of training inference and deployment platforms
Influence Huaweis hardwaresoftware co-design strategy
Shape Huaweis position in the global AI research and open-source ecosystem

Scientific & Technical Scope

The role spans the full multimodal AI stack:

VisionLanguage Models Video Models and Multimodal Agents
Transformers Diffusion Models and Large Multimodal Model (LMM) architectures
Large-scale training inference and serving systems
Memory KV-cache scheduling and performance-critical AI infrastructure

The Chief Scientist will define:

How multimodal models are architected
How they are trained and served at scale
How they map onto Huaweis computing platforms

Ecosystem and Open Innovation Leadership

We expect the Chief Scientist to be an external technical authority as well as an internal leader.

This includes:

Influencing and steering major open-source AI ecosystems (e.g. Transformers LLaVA OpenMMLab Diffusers multimodal and video frameworks)
Establishing Huawei as a first-class contributor and thought leader
Building global research and engineering communities around Huaweis platforms

Research & Thought Leadership

The ideal candidate has:

A strong track record of shaping research agendas in top venues (NeurIPS ICLR CVPR ICCV ACL EMNLP etc.)
A history of inventing architectures and systems not just improving existing ones
The ability to translate research into industry-defining platforms

Profile

PhD 10 years of experience in AI systems or computer architecture
Recognized authority in at least one of:
- Multimodal AI
- Large-scale model systems
- AI infrastructure or hardwaresoftware co-design
Strong ability to operate across research engineering and corporate strategy
Excellent communication and technical leadership in English

About HuaweiHuawei is a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT) building the digital and intelligent infrastructure that powers more than 170 countries and regions and serves over one-third of the worlds population. With more than 180000 employees Huawei invests heavily in f...