Computer Vision Research Scientist

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

Areas: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Video Understanding

We are looking for research engineers working in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and video understanding. As part of a fundamental research group, our innovations are expected to support R&D in the domains of video search/classification/caption/edit and human machine interaction. By joining our lab, you will have the chance to work on real world problems with industry funding. Our work will contribute to pushing the edge of technology innovation and we expect to publish our research results at top conferences. Collaboration, communication and curiosity will be key to your success. 

Responsibilities

Working closely with other research scientists, research engineers, and research interns, you will:

·       Invent state-of-the-art AI and computer vision algorithms to be published in top AI/CV conferences.

·       Design and implement AI/CV solutions to real-world problems, and land them in various Huawei products

Qualifications

·       PhD in computer science or related fields with a focus on computer vision and machine learning.

·       Papers at relevant conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.

·       In-depth hands-on experience in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch 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 video content understanding/search/classification, or 3D Human/Object generation a plus for senior level positions