Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month internship opening for a Strategic
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:
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Participate in academic conferences and evaluation activities, providing
technical insights.
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Assist in technical path analysis, carry out research on next-generation
emerging technologies related to AI LLM, survey the latest trends on a
regular basis, and understand the technology evolution roadmap.
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Survey, analyze, identify, and envision significant innovations in
fundamental AI LLM.
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Produce brief reports and systematic analyses on important innovations and
trends.
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Communicate with collaborating teams to promote innovations with substantive
potential.
About the ideal candidate:
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Doctoral candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science,
or a related discipline.
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Strong awareness of research trends within academia. Actively participating
in academic conferences, with prior experience is an asset.
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Publications at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV,
ECCV, ACL, CoLM, CoLLAs, RLC, RLDM, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RSS, etc.
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Research focus and up-to-date expertise in one or more of the following
areas:
o Computer vision, multimodal generative AI and multimodal foundation
models
o NLP, LLM, and LLM-based AI assistants and agents
o Embodied intelligence, spatial intelligence, and robotics
o Fundamental deep learning and reinforcement learning methods,
architectures, and algorithms
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Experience in building large scale machine learning solutions or real-world
products is an asset.
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Good teamwork spirit and excellent communication skills.
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Demonstrate creative thinking.
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Responsible, proactive, and passionate about solving challenging problems.
