Researcher - Robot/Embodied AI

1 week ago

Allstate Parkway Markham Ontario LR B Canada Huawei Technologies Canada Co. Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year
Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contractor opening for a Researcher. 


About the team:
The Human-Machine Interaction Lab unites global talents to redefine the relationship between humans and technology. Focused on innovation and user-centered design, the lab strives to advance human-computer interaction research. Our team includes researchers, engineers, and designers collaborating across disciplines to develop novel interactive systems, sensing technologies, wearable and IoT systems, human factors, computer vision, and multimodal interfaces. Through high-impact products and cutting-edge research, we aim to enhance user experiences and interactions with technology.


About the job:

  • Work closely with a team of experienced human-machine interaction researchers to solve real world challenges in the application of Embodied AI.

  • Develop state-of-the-art approaches for Embodied AI applications. Directions include, but not limited to, generative AI, multimodal embodied agent, reasoning, planning, data generation and augmentation, reinforcement learning, and low-level control.

  • Research the technologies trends of Embodied AI & Robotic and write project proposals for project team that can be used in project charter or business plan.

  • Translate mathematical problem definitions and model/solution specifications into efficient executable code.

  • Conduct evaluation and empirical studies using robotic platforms in both simulation and real-world.

  • Propose high-impact intellectual properties (e.g., patents), and publishing or contributing to research papers in top-tier AI venues.

Job requirements

About the ideal candidate:

  • PhD degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related fields or master's degree with equivalent professional experience.

  • Prior experience in robotics, generative AI, and/or vision and language processing.

  • Proven research record in AI by having at least one paper as the first author in top tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IROS, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, HRI).

  • Proficiency in Python and C++ programming language, with experience in 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.

  • Working knowledge of the general terminal devices landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies, with relevant experience and strong interest in Human-computer Interaction, especially (multimodel) voice interaction.

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