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:
Design and develop next-generation AI agents powered by large language models, enabling autonomous reasoning, planning, and task execution.
Build core agent capabilities such as memory, tool use, self-reflection, and long-horizon decision-making.
Develop and optimize multi-agent systems to support collaboration, coordination, and complex problem solving.
Integrate AI agents with external tools, APIs, and real-world systems to enable end-to-end automation.
Explore and advance techniques in reasoning-enhanced LLMs, agent alignment, and embodied intelligence.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, production-ready systems.
The total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $127,000 to $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.
About the ideal candidate:
PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
Strong background in large language models, AI agents, or decision-making systems.
Track record of research contributions, including publications in venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or equivalent applied work.
Experience rapidly turning ideas into working prototypes and experiments.
Solid engineering skills (e.g., Python, PyTorch) and experience working with large-scale ML systems.
Familiarity with agent architectures (e.g., tool use, retrieval, planning, memory) is an asset.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work across research, engineering, and product 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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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.