Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract 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 devices - advancing 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, prototype, and evaluate new AI/ML technologies for multimodal human-machine interaction across speech/audio, vision, language, touch, gesture, motion, and other device sensors

Rapidly reproduce and extend promising approaches from research papers, open-source projects, and emerging AI technologies, assessing applicability to real product scenarios

Design and implement models and experimental systems for multimodal perception, cross-modal fusion, context understanding, and intelligent interaction

Train, fine-tune, adapt, or integrate ML and foundation models, and build practical prototypes that demonstrate capabilities on real devices

Design rigorous experiments to evaluate model quality, failure modes, robustness, latency, memory usage, and other product-relevant trade-offs

Collaborate with researchers, engineers, designers, and product teams to translate research results into compelling demonstrations and product solutions

Communicate findings through technical presentations, documentation,



and experimental results, and contribute to patents or publications when appropriate

The total target annual compensation (based on 2,080 hours per year) ranges from $106,000 - $156,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.
About the ideal candidate: Master's or PhD in CS, EE/CE, AI, ML, Statistics, HCI, or related field

At least 2 years of relevant research or industry experience, including graduate research where applicable

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

Demonstrated research ability through graduate research, industry R&D;, publications, patents, or open-source contributions

Hands-on experience in at least one relevant area: speech/audio, computer vision, multimodal learning, NLP, generative AI, foundation models, HCI, or sensor-based interaction

Robust Python skills, able to independently develop and debug non-trivial research prototypes (Typescript / Kotlin, C++/Java a plus)

Ability to reproduce recent research, design meaningful experiments, and critically analyze results rather than relying only on existing APIs

Strong analytical skills and ability to turn ambiguous technical ideas into working prototypes in a fast-moving environment

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.

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📌 Applied AI Researcher – Multimodal Intelligence (Ontario)
🏢 Huawei Technologies Canada Co.
📍 Ontario