Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Principal Researcher - AI4Science
About the team:
The Technology Planning and Cooperation Department promotes strategic innovation across all of Huawei Canada. Working with fellow experts, the focus is researching new and upcoming areas of technology as well as strategic planning to help achieve long term vision of Huawei. This department offers a unique opportunity to leverage both technical and business skills.
While we are developing next-generation computing infrastructure and AI foundation models that integrate physics, simulation, and learning at unprecedented scale, this is the position we are targeting to bring in a bright individual who bridges scientific AI research and system-level innovation—advancing our mission of combining computing and connectivity to enable large-scale AI for Science and simulation intelligence.
About the job:
Conduct cutting-edge research at the intersection of Scientific computation and AI infrastructure, including physics-informed AI, distributed training, and hybrid simulation–ML workflows.
Collaborate across Huawei’s Computation + networking R&D divisions to design infrastructure-aware AI models and co-optimize algorithms and hardware.
Lead or contribute to AI4Science foundation models in areas such as materials, physics, molecular, or multi-scale simulation.
Prototype distributed training solutions and integrated AI pipelines using Huawei’s MindSpore and Ascend AI ecosystems.
Publish research in top-tier ML and science venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, JHEP, PRD) and contribute to Huawei’s internal IP and R&D assets.
Mentor junior researchers and contribute to long-term strategic planning of Huawei’s AI4Sci + Compute Infrastructure initiatives.
About the ideal candidate:
Ph.D. in Physics, Computer Science, Computational Science, or a related field.
Proven research experience in AI for Science, scientific simulation, or physics-informed learning.
Strong programming and distributed system experience (Python, CUDA, PyTorch, TensorFlow).
Familiarity with HPC, parallel computing, or large-scale AI infrastructure.
Strong research record demonstrated through publications or impactful project experience.
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Huawei Technologies provides innovative and customized network solutions for telecom carriers around the world. Huawei holds leading positions in the global market in switching, next generation network (NGN), integrated access network, DSLAM, and intelligent network. Specializing in the areas of fixed network, mobile network, optical network, data communications, and value-added services, we strive to enable the best communication with our deep understanding of customers' needs. Huawei is dedicated to delivering long term value and potential growth to our customers. Established in 1988 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Huawei has already won trust from over 300 telecom carriers around the world. Our products and solutions serve over 90 countries, as well as 22 of the world's top 50 operators. Huawei’s cloud computing products provide the reliability, agility, and price-performance needed for delivering cutting-edge applications and services quickly, safely, and securely to large scale of industry verticals. Our cloud deploys various popular technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Openstack, SDN/NFV, Hadoop, Spark, and many more. Huawei Public Cloud now mainly launched in China (and will spread to the other parts of the world) and Private cloud is deployed in several customer locations. Huawei has 400+ Worlwide Data Centers including several public/private cloud setups.