Vice President of Technical Research - Computing Bus Systems

Huawei Canada is seeking a dynamic and experienced Vice President of Technical Research.About Our Team:The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab at Huawei Canada is dedicated to pioneering a world-class data analytics platform through three specialized teams that leverage advanced programming technologies. Our team is committed to full-stack innovation…

Join Huawei Canada as a Senior Research Engineer, specializing in AI Agents and AgentOps.About Our Team:Since its inception in 2014, the Distributed Scheduling and Data Engine Lab has been at the forefront of Huawei Cloud's innovation in Canada. We delve into cutting-edge cloud technologies, enhancing product development and continuous improvement. Our research encompasses cloud-native databases, resource scheduling, middleware, media processing, and user experience studies. We cultivate a dynamic technical environment, collaborating with industry experts to build a leading cloud platform.Your Role:Design and develop LLM-driven AI agents tailored for cloud services, with a strong focus on agent design, orchestration, and integration within PaaS platforms.Translate complex academic theories into practical, scalable production code, enhancing AI tools and application platforms.Collaborate with AI researchers and cloud engineers to architect, implement, and assess AI-driven systems.Ensure optimal performance and reliability of AI workflows through thorough testing and evaluation.Engage in applied research with opportunities for publication, patenting, and advancing the frontiers of autonomous AI systems.The anticipated annual total compensation for this role ranges from $127,000 to $225,000, contingent on qualifications, experience, and proven expertise.

Join Huawei Canada as a Co-op Researcher!The Human-Machine Interaction Lab at Huawei Canada seeks to revolutionize the way humans interact with technology. Our dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and designers collaborate on cutting-edge projects that encompass innovative interactive systems, sensing technologies, and advancements in human-computer interaction. We pride ourselves on a user-centered design approach, aiming to enhance the overall user experience through groundbreaking research and high-impact products.Your Role:Implementation: Contribute to the design and execution of agentic applications designed for AI to engage dynamically with various tools, APIs, and computing environments, fostering proactive and context-sensitive behaviors.Innovative Solutions: Explore and apply advanced harness engineering techniques to optimize task execution, incorporating the latest developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous agent systems for task automation and collaborative decision-making.Collaboration: Work intimately with seasoned engineers, AI researchers, and UI/UX designers on pioneering projects focusing on human-AI interactions.Problem Solving: Leverage your strong analytical skills to devise efficient solutions for complex technical challenges, ensuring agent reliability and effective context management.Optimization: Assist in the assessment and enhancement of performance metrics, ensuring an efficient and trustworthy agentic experience.

About the Team The Emerging Storage Lab at Huawei Canada's Toronto and Vancouver Research Centres focuses on developing next-generation storage technologies. The group includes graduate engineers and scientists from a range of backgrounds, from recent graduates to experienced professionals. Together, the team investigates topics in data management and AI-driven storage to advance the field. Role Overview: Co-op Researcher in AI Storage This co-op position centers on research and development for AI storage solutions at Huawei Canada in Markham, Ontario. Main Responsibilities Research new Network Filesystem storage solutions, with an emphasis on metadata management and improving data access algorithms. Carry out thorough system testing to verify the reliability and availability of storage solutions. Develop methods for problem determination, including root cause analysis and resolution within storage environments. Participate in daily stand-ups and bi-weekly meetings to monitor progress, address challenges, and coordinate project priorities. Compensation Total target annual compensation for this co-op role ranges from $58,000 to $104,000, depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

Join Huawei Canada as a Senior Researcher specializing in Embodied AI.About Our Team:Established in 2012, the Noah’s Ark Lab has become a leading research institution, achieving notable success in both academic and industrial realms. Our mission is to propel advancements in artificial intelligence and its applications for the betterment of society and our organization. We are committed to impactful and long-term projects aimed at enhancing cutting-edge research and integrating innovative solutions into our products, which include LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and autonomous driving technologies.Position Overview:Collaborate with a team of skilled researchers to tackle real-world challenges in the field of Embodied AI.Design and implement state-of-the-art methodologies for Embodied AI applications, focusing on areas such as generative AI, representation learning, foundational models, reasoning, planning, data generation and augmentation, reinforcement learning, and low-level control.Convert mathematical problem definitions and model specifications into efficient, executable code.Conduct evaluations and empirical studies utilizing robotic platforms in both simulated environments and real-world settings.Develop high-impact intellectual properties (e.g., patents) and contribute to research publications in premier AI conferences and journals.

About the Team Noah’s Ark Lab, established in 2012, drives research at Huawei Canada with a focus on artificial intelligence. The lab’s work spans both academic and industry applications, supporting projects that shape AI’s future in areas such as large language models, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision, AI theory, and autonomous driving. The team is committed to long-term research that directly informs Huawei’s products and services. Role Overview The Senior Researcher in Physical AI will join the Markham, Ontario team to tackle practical challenges in Embodied AI and Spatial AI. This position blends foundational research with real-world application, working closely with other researchers and engineers. Key Responsibilities Work with a multidisciplinary team to address challenges in Embodied AI and Spatial AI, connecting research outcomes to practical solutions. Develop and test new methodologies for Physical AI, focusing on areas such as robotic foundation models, world models, multimodal representation learning, reasoning and planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and low-level control. Translate problem definitions and model designs into production-ready code, supporting rapid experimentation and iteration. Design and conduct experiments on both simulation and real-world robotics platforms, including data collection, evaluation, and performance analysis. Collaborate across research, infrastructure, and robotics teams to create a feedback loop between data, models, and real-world performance. Contribute to patents and publish research in leading AI and robotics venues. Compensation Total target annual compensation for this role ranges from $127,000 to $225,000, depending on educational background, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

Noah’s Ark Lab at Huawei Canada, established in 2012, is known for its research in artificial intelligence. The team contributes to both academic and industry advancements, with projects spanning large language models, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision, AI theory, and autonomous driving. The lab’s work aims to drive progress for Huawei and the broader technology community. Role overview The Senior AI Agent Researcher, based in Markham, Ontario, will focus on designing and developing advanced AI agents. This role emphasizes translating leading research into practical, scalable systems. What you will do Design and build AI agents that use large language models for autonomous reasoning, planning, and task execution. Develop features such as memory, tool use, self-reflection, and long-term decision-making within agent systems. Create and enhance multi-agent systems to enable collaboration, coordination, and complex problem-solving. Integrate AI agents with external tools, APIs, and real-world systems to achieve end-to-end automation. Advance research in reasoning-enhanced large language models, agent alignment, and embodied intelligence. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to bring research concepts into production-ready solutions. Compensation Total target annual compensation ranges from $127,000 to $225,000, based on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

Noah’s Ark Lab at Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. is a research group established in 2012, located in Markham, Ontario. The team explores artificial intelligence across areas such as large language models, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision, AI theory, and autonomous driving. Projects often bridge academic research and real-world application, with a focus on long-term impact and integrating new findings into products and services. Role overview The Senior Principal Researcher - AI Algorithms will guide the research direction for AI algorithms at the Markham site. This position sets the vision for AI agents, embodied AI, and reasoning-centric large language models. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on research and cross-team collaboration. What you will do Define and drive the research strategy and technical roadmap for AI agents, embodied AI, and reasoning-focused large language models. Lead a multidisciplinary research team, encouraging scientific rigor, creativity, and quick iteration. Translate research advances into scalable, production-ready AI systems in close partnership with engineering and product teams. Advance the field by conducting original research and establishing internal best practices. Identify new research directions by collaborating with top academic and industry labs. Oversee research investments, infrastructure, and resource allocation to support long-term objectives. Serve as a thought leader by publishing research, delivering keynote talks, and contributing to the global AI community. Location Markham, Ontario, Canada

Join Huawei Canada as an Intern Researcher in AI Agent Evaluation!The Distributed Scheduling and Data Engine Lab, established in 2014, serves as Huawei Cloud's technical innovation hub in Canada. Our lab is dedicated to pioneering research and development in advanced cloud technologies, facilitating the productization and continual enhancement of our technical breakthroughs. We focus on cutting-edge areas such as cloud-native databases, intelligent SQL engines, LLM/Agent infrastructure, and LLM/Agent Evaluation Technology. Our collaborative environment with industry experts empowers us to build a competitive cloud platform.About the Role:Engage in groundbreaking research aimed at enhancing the capabilities and evaluation methods of large language model-based agents, contributing to the development of the next generation of dependable AI systems.Your focus will be on tackling fundamental challenges associated with deploying AI agents in complex, long-term tasks, particularly in managing context, reasoning under uncertainty, and ensuring consistent behavior.You will employ formal reasoning, causal inference, and theoretical foundations in your research strategies to deeply understand agent behavior across various environments.This position is research-centric, requiring you to define complex problems, conduct thorough experiments, and contribute to publishable findings rather than developing production-ready systems.The ultimate goal is to create principled methods and theoretical underpinnings that drive significant advancements in agent evaluation and autonomous reasoning.

Join Huawei Canada as a Senior Researcher in our Emerging Storage Lab!About Our Team:Our Emerging Storage Lab, located at Huawei Canada's Toronto and Vancouver Research Centres, is dedicated to pioneering next-generation storage technologies. Our diverse team of skilled computer engineers and scientists, with experience ranging from recent graduates to industry veterans with over 20 years of expertise, is at the forefront of innovation. We explore various aspects of storage technology including data management, data cataloging, file systems, storage networks, and AI storage, seeking to propel advancements in the AI-driven data storage landscape.Job Responsibilities:Conduct applied research to design and prototype cutting-edge AI data engines and storage architectures tailored for optimizing large-scale AI training and inference workloads.Architect and implement robust software components across data, metadata, and AI pipeline layers, ensuring data lineage, versioning, and automated lifecycle management for AI assets.Develop and refine the data plane for AI infrastructures, addressing critical challenges like distributed dataset shuffling, rapid checkpointing, model loading and offloading, KV Cache operations, and low-latency metadata serving for billion-scale datasets.Create high-performance system software that seamlessly integrates AI storage, AI data, and orchestration frameworks, eliminating bottlenecks within the machine learning pipeline.Enhance the end-to-end data path from persistent storage to GPU memory by leveraging knowledge of hardware, networking, and AI workload specifications.Contribute to the academic community by publishing research at leading conferences.Collaborate with global AI research and engineering teams to bring innovations to production and shape the strategic roadmap for AI infrastructure.

About the Team The Human-Machine Interaction Lab at Huawei Canada brings together researchers, engineers, and designers from around the world. The team explores new ways for people to interact with technology, focusing on user-centered design and collaboration. Projects span interactive systems, advanced sensing, wearables, IoT, and multimodal interfaces, all aimed at improving how users experience technology. Role Overview This is a 12-month contract position based in Markham, Ontario. The AI/ML Researcher will work on developing and prototyping artificial intelligence and machine learning models for next-generation products, including smartphones, smart glasses, and wearables. Main Responsibilities Prototype and implement AI and ML models to support development of intelligent consumer products. Conduct literature reviews and collaborate with internal teams to explore new concepts. Evaluate model performance, optimize AI solutions, and strengthen product-level AI features. Present research findings to internal teams and partner with product groups to move prototypes toward real-world solutions. Compensation Total compensation for this contract (based on 2,080 hours annually) ranges from $106,000 to $156,000, depending on education, experience, and expertise.

Join Huawei Canada as an AI Agent Intern Researcher for a 12-month internship opportunity. This role allows you to immerse yourself in groundbreaking AI technologies.About Our TeamThe Technology Planning and Cooperation Department is at the forefront of shaping long-term technology strategies and pioneering innovations across CARI. Collaborate with senior researchers, system architects, and industry leaders, focusing on next-generation AI technologies and intelligent systems like foundation models and AI agents.Our group thrives at the convergence of technology foresight, advanced research, and prototype development, transforming visionary concepts into experimental systems and early-stage technology prototypes.This internship offers a unique chance to work on pioneering AI subjects while developing real technical prototypes that could shape future platforms and products.Internship Overview:We seek enthusiastic PhD Research Interns dedicated to exploring innovative AI technologies and developing experimental prototypes. The internship will involve AI agents, foundation models, and intelligent systems, merging technological insights with research and system prototyping.Interns will engage with cutting-edge topics, including AI agents and autonomous developer systems, while constructing experimental prototypes that may significantly influence future products and research pathways.Key ResponsibilitiesMonitor advancements in AI/ML, foundation models, AI agents, and AI systems to uncover emerging technological opportunities.Evaluate research literature and industry trends to derive technical insights and potential research trajectories.Contribute to internal research reports and briefings on cutting-edge AI technologies and innovations.Design and develop experimental prototypes to investigate new AI architectures and system concepts.Build early-stage systems pertaining to AI agents, multi-agent systems, developer agents, and AI-native software platforms.

Join Huawei Canada as a Co-op Researcher!The Human-Machine Interaction Lab at Huawei is at the forefront of redefining the interaction between humans and technology. With a focus on innovation and user-centered design, our team of talented researchers, engineers, and designers is dedicated to advancing research in human-computer interaction. We work collaboratively to develop cutting-edge interactive systems, sensing technologies, wearable and IoT systems, human factors, computer vision, and multimodal interfaces to enhance user experiences with technology.Your Role:Prototype Development: Collaborate with team members to create simple prototypes demonstrating voice-first multimodal interactions, such as voice combined with touch or gesture, on real devices.Model Integration & Tuning: Utilize existing speech tools (like Whisper or Vosk) to incorporate features such as speech recognition and text-to-speech, performing light tuning and testing to optimize usability.Multimodal Fusion Logic: Implement interaction logic that integrates audio, camera, and touch inputs, allowing for seamless user interactions through voice commands and gestures.Collaborative Feature Exploration: Work with researchers and designers to prototype innovative interaction concepts, transforming ideas into practical demos.Toolkit & Framework Expertise: Engage with tools and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) to understand their application in both on-device and cloud-based solutions.Code Quality & Experimentation: Focus on maintaining high standards of code quality while conducting experiments to explore new interaction paradigms.

Join Huawei Canada as a Co-op Researcher!The Human-Machine Interaction Lab is at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to reshaping the interaction between humans and technology. Our diverse team of researchers, engineers, and designers collaborates to push the boundaries of human-computer interaction, focusing on user-centered design and cutting-edge research.In this role, you will:Contribute to the design and prototyping of robotic systems that leverage embodied AI to enhance real-time interaction with users and environments.Develop perception pipelines for robots, integrating sensors and actuators to facilitate actions based on user commands and contextual understanding.Create engaging interaction loops that allow robots to adapt to user inputs, exploring concepts like proactive assistance and learning from user demonstrations.Utilize robot middleware (such as ROS/ROS2), simulation tools (like Gazebo and Isaac Sim), and embedded systems to build coherent embodied AI prototypes.Keep abreast of foundational embodied AI concepts and meticulously document your findings, designs, and coding decisions.

Huawei Canada is excited to announce a permanent opportunity for a Senior Researcher specializing in Voice AI.Team Overview:Join the Human-Machine Interaction Lab, where we bring together top talents from around the globe to transform the interaction between humans and technology. Our team is dedicated to pioneering innovative, user-centered designs and advancing research in human-computer interaction. We collaborate across various disciplines, developing groundbreaking interactive systems, sensing technologies, wearable and IoT devices, human factors, computer vision, and multimodal interfaces. Our mission is to elevate user experiences through impactful products and state-of-the-art research.Role Responsibilities:Engage in advanced research and rapid prototyping in the areas of speech and audio AI, including but not limited to speech enhancement, separation, recognition, speaker modeling, and audio-language/vision models.Design, implement, and critically evaluate cutting-edge deep learning architectures for effective speech and audio comprehension.Contribute to the development of Huawei’s next-generation intelligent products, such as smartphones, earbuds, wearables, and smart glasses, by innovating audio AI functionalities.Work collaboratively with research scientists, software engineers, and product teams to convert research findings into operational systems.Maintain awareness of emerging technologies in audio, multimodal, and large foundation models, contributing to publications, patents, and product innovations.Share research advancements and results with both internal and external stakeholders.

Join Huawei Canada as an Intern Researcher specializing in Embodied AI. This exciting opportunity awaits you!About Our Team:Established in 2012, the Noah's Ark Lab has become a leading research hub with significant contributions to both academia and industry. Our mission is to propel advancements in artificial intelligence and its applications, benefiting both the company and society at large. Through impactful projects, we strive to push the boundaries of state-of-the-art research while incorporating innovative solutions into our products and services across various domains including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and autonomous driving.Job Responsibilities:Engage in the research and development of cutting-edge models for LLM agents addressing decision-making, planning, and reasoning, particularly in open-world virtual environments.Contribute to academic advancements by publishing at prestigious ML conferences, filing impactful patents, and composing scientific technical reports.Assist in the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of research and development frameworks.Demonstrate a willingness to learn and collaborate in a dynamic research setting while communicating solutions for complex learning challenges.Stay informed on the latest developments in ML, focusing on areas such as Transformers, State Space Models, and deep learning, and share insights with the team.

Huawei Canada is excited to announce an immediate opening for a 4 to 8-month internship opportunity for an AI Efficiency Researcher.About Our Team:Established in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has become a leading research hub, making significant contributions to both academic and industrial advancements. Our mission is to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and allied fields for the betterment of both our company and society. We undertake impactful, long-term projects aimed at refining state-of-the-art research and integrating innovative solutions into our products and services, encompassing areas such as LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving.Role Overview:Participate in pioneering research focused on optimizing AI systems, particularly aimed at improving performance on edge devices.Develop and investigate efficient algorithms and models to reduce computational and storage demands on edge devices.Research and apply AI model optimization techniques specific to various hardware platforms, including model quantization, pruning, and distillation.Assess and analyze the performance of optimized AI models in practical application scenarios.Work collaboratively with team members to tackle technical challenges and contribute to academic writing and publication efforts.

Huawei Canada is excited to announce a permanent opening for a Senior Researcher in GPU Applications Architecture.About Our Team:The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab is dedicated to developing a premier global data analytics platform, segmented into three innovative teams employing cutting-edge programming technologies. This particular team is at the forefront of full-stack innovations, engaging in software-hardware co-design and enhancing data efficiency across both storage and runtime layers. Our focus includes pioneering GPU architecture tailored for gaming, cloud rendering, VR/AR, and Metaverse applications.Our mission is to elevate algorithm performance and training efficiency across diverse sectors, ensuring sustained competitive advantages.Job Responsibilities:Perform comprehensive analyses of physical AI, 3D graphics, unmanned driving, and embodied AI application trends, meticulously evaluating key requirements for GPU computing architecture. Design environmental simulation and rendering platforms based on proprietary GPU architectures, providing development, training, and simulation capabilities for emerging applications.Execute in-depth evaluations of GPU cluster systems. Establish hardware architecture, system frameworks, and software architectures. Implement intelligent solutions for large-scale clusters. Facilitate the development and simulation of emerging applications like physical AI, 3D graphics, unmanned driving, embodied AI, and cloud rendering to maintain industry-leading capabilities in environmental simulation and rendering.Persistently advance technological leadership in space intelligence and drive the evolution of our self-developed GPU technology ecosystem.

Huawei Canada is excited to announce an immediate opening for a Co-op Researcher specializing in Robotics Systems and Interaction.About Our Team:Join our innovative Human-Machine Interaction Lab, where a diverse group of global talents collaborates to reshape the relationship between humans and technology. Our focus on cutting-edge, user-centered design propels our research in human-computer interaction. Our team comprises researchers, engineers, and designers working together to create groundbreaking interactive systems, advanced sensing technologies, wearable devices, IoT systems, and multimodal interfaces. We are committed to enhancing user experiences through impactful products and pioneering research.Key Responsibilities:Design & Prototyping: Collaborate in 3D modeling of mechanical components using tools like SolidWorks and design electrical circuit layouts or printed circuit boards (PCBs).Robot Programming: Write and troubleshoot code for industrial or collaborative robots, primarily using ROS(2), Python, or C++.System Integration: Seamlessly integrate sensors (e.g., machine vision, tactile), actuators, and microcontrollers such as Arduino into unified robotic platforms.Documentation: Compile technical reports, assembly instructions, and bills of materials (BOMs) to facilitate the transition from design to production.

The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab at Huawei Canada in Markham works on global data analytics platforms. This team combines software and hardware expertise to improve data efficiency in storage and runtime. Projects include developing advanced GPU architectures for gaming, cloud rendering, VR/AR, and Metaverse applications, always with future needs in mind. The group aims to advance algorithm performance and training efficiency across industries to support long-term competitiveness. Role overview This internship centers on research and development for AI foundation model training. The focus is on supporting and optimizing large language models (LLMs), code models, and multimodal models. The work involves model architecture improvements, running experiments, applying post-training optimization techniques, and exploring continual learning. Hardware-aware strategies to boost model efficiency are part of the scope. Key responsibilities Assist in developing and refining foundation models, including architecture improvements and experimental work. Apply post-training optimization and investigate continual learning methods. Help build and improve distributed training and inference systems, including parallelization strategies such as model, tensor, and data parallelism. Support operator-level and computational graph optimizations, and participate in performance benchmarking and analysis. Work closely with hardware architects and algorithm engineers on research, experiments, and prototyping to enhance system and model performance. Compensation Total target annual compensation (based on 2,080 hours per year) ranges from $58,000 to $104,000, depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.