RL Research Scientist
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.Company Description
About Huawei
With 194,000 employees and operating in more than 170 countries and regions, Huawei is a leading global creator and provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Integrated solutions span across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services. Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
About Huawei Canada
Huawei Canada focuses on fundamental research and development aimed at solving complex technical problems in emerging technologies like 5G, AI, Human Computer Interaction and Autonomous Driving. With ongoing research initiatives with 10 Universities across Canada and strategic collaboration agreements with several Universities, we support Canada’s rich research community. In 2020, Huawei Canada ranked among the Top 20 corporate R&D investors in the country with a huge 40% increase in R&D investment year over year. Huawei Canada was established in 2008 and now has a total workforce of 1,200 in our six research centers across Canada.
Why work with Huawei Canada?
You will have the opportunity to work on real world problems that impact people across the globe. Many of our researchers are actively involved in publishing conference and journal papers, inventing patents and solving challenging technical problems. With cutting edge tools, access to highly specialized leaders and researchers, and significant funding, you will be well supported to fulfil your potential and pursue your professional dreams.
Job Description
We are looking for junior and senior level research scientists working in reinforcement learning. This is a rare opportunity to join our team in the Edmonton research center, with opportunities working on challenging but impactful projects both in research and real-world applications, including: (1) conducting high-quality research in the topics of continual learning, multi-task / transfer learning, offline RL, and etc.; (2) developing prototype applications in autonomous driving, and other complex real-world optimization problems. We have created a passionate and engaging culture that encourages conducting innovative research, and combing research with engineering to create real-world impacts.
By joining our team, you will work closely with other research scientists, research engineers, and research interns to design state-of-the-art AI solutions and machine learning algorithms, to evaluate them both with common benchmarking suites and with internal simulation environments & date sets, and to publish the research results at top conferences. Such innovations are expected to support R&D in the domains of autonomous driving, robotics, network control, enterprise supply chain management, data center and cloud facility optimization, and chip design, etc. Senior research scientists are expected to lead research teams and take part in setting research strategies.
Qualifications
- PhD (preferable) or Masters in computer science or related fields with a focus on reinforcement learning & decision making.
- Papers at relevant conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, ICRA, RSS, etc.
- In-depth hands-on experience in Python, C/C++, R, Julia, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, etc. and a track record of translating ideas into research prototypes quickly.
- Working or internship experience at industry research labs or technology companies a plus.
- Experience building large scale machine learning solutions for decision making, planning, reasoning, autonomous driving, operations research, or multi-agent systems a plus for senior level positions.
- Minimum of 2 to 3 years of relevant working experience required for senior level positions.
Additional Information
This is a long term contract role.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Autonomous Driving C++ Computer Science Engineering ICLR ICML Julia Keras Machine Learning NeurIPS PhD Python PyTorch R R&D Research Robotics TensorFlow
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Lead Data Analyst jobs
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Data Science Manager jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Data Manager jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Power BI Developer jobs
- Open Principal Data Engineer jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Developer jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open Product Data Analyst jobs
- Open Senior Data Architect jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Big Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Analyst Intern jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Product Manager jobs
- Open Data Quality Analyst jobs
- Open Junior Data Engineer jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open Privacy-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open Snowflake-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open Airflow-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open Generative AI-related jobs
- Open Databricks-related jobs