Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent 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, design, and build next-generation multimodal AI capabilities for intelligent consumer devices, spanning speech/audio, vision, language, touch, gesture, motion, and contextual sensing

Identify high-impact research problems and own projects from early exploration through model development, evaluation, and product-oriented validation

Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep learning and foundation models for multimodal perception, reasoning, interaction, and generation

Develop current approaches for reasoning across modalities to enable more natural, adaptive human-machine interaction

Rapidly prototype research ideas, reproduce state-of-the-art methods, and evolve promising concepts into robust demonstrations

Build datasets and evaluation methodologies, run rigorous experiments, and establish metrics reflecting both model performance and real interaction quality

Optimize models for real-world constraints (latency, memory, power, privacy, robustness, on-device vs. cloud) and collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams





Contribute reproducible code, documentation, and IP through publications, patents, or open-source projects when appropriate

The

total target annual compensation

for this position 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, Math, HCI, or related field (exceptional Bachelor's candidates considered)

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

Technical depth in multimodal learning, speech/audio, computer vision, NLP, generative AI, or foundation models

Experience with LLMs/VLMs, agentic AI, multi-agent systems, or context-aware intelligent systems is a strong asset

Track record turning research into working systems: prototypes, open-source, patents, publications, or shipped products

End-to-end ML development experience: data prep, training, evaluation, debugging, optimization, deployment

Understanding of practical AI trade-offs (quality, latency, compute, memory, robustness) and on-device/resource-constrained deployment

3+ years relevant research or industry experience (including graduate research), with strong Python (Typescript / Kotlin, C++/Java a plus) and collaboration skills across teams

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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📌 Research Engineer – Multimodal AI & Interaction (Winnipeg)
🏢 Huawei Technologies Canada Co.
📍 Winnipeg