Posted 19 months ago
Senior Researcher - Embodied AI
@ Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Markham, Ontario
Overview
Huawei Technologies Canada is hiring a Senior Researcher for its Noah's Ark lab to work on Embodied AI. The role covers developing new approaches in generative AI, planning, and reinforcement learning, then testing them on robots in simulation and in the real world. It is a full-time permanent position.
Responsibilities:
- Develop state-of-the-art Embodied AI approaches
- Translate mathematical models into executable code
- Run evaluation studies on robotic platforms
- Propose patents and publish research papers
- Collaborate with experienced researchers on real-world challenges
Requirements summary:
- PhD in Computer Science or related field, or master's with comparable experience
- First-author paper in top-tier AI venue such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or ICRA
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Robotics, ROS or real-robot experience is an asset
- Imitation and reinforcement learning experience is an asset
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- Employer posting date
- 2025-04-15
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-08
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Research & science |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Laboratory |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Doctorate (preferred), Master’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science |
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Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.
About the team:
Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving.
About the job:
Working closely with a team of experienced researchers to solve real world challenges in the domain of Embodied AI.
Developing state-of-the-art approaches for Embodied AI applications. Directions include, but not limited to, generative AI, representation learning, foundation models, reasoning, planning, data generation and augmentation, reinforcement learning, and low-level control.
Translating mathematical problem definitions and model/solution specifications into efficient executable code.
Conducting evaluation and empirical studies using robotic platforms in both simulation and real-world.
Proposing high-impact intellectual properties (e.g., patents), and publishing or contributing to research papers in top-tier AI venues.
About the ideal candidate:
PhD degree in Computer Science or related fields or master's degree with comparable experience.
Prior experience in sequence analysis and generative AI, in particular vision and language.
Proven research record in AI by having at least one paper as the first author in top tier venues, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA.
Proficiency in Python programming language.
Experience with one or more mainstream deep learning frameworks e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow.
Experience in robotics applications, in particular decision-making, planning and control, or experience with real robot and ROS is an asset.
Experience with using large-scale datasets and sensor data, or with use of various transformer architectures and diffusion models is an asset.
Experience with imitation and reinforcement learning algorithms is an asset.
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