About the role#
Huawei Canada is hiring an Intern Researcher for an 8-12 month term within the Noah's Ark Laboratory. You will work with senior researchers and engineers to explore and implement algorithms in AI agents, multimodal AI, and code generation.
What you'll do#
- Conduct research on AI agents, LLMs, VLMs, and multimodal AI.
- Design and develop GUI and coding agents for web, mobile, and computer-use environments.
- Investigate new approaches for SFT, reinforcement learning, agent training, tool use, and function calling.
- Build research prototypes, datasets, training pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks.
- Run experiments and analyze results.
- Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and journals.
- Present results through technical presentations.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.
- Background in LLMs, VLMs, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, code generation, AI agents, computer vision, or NLP.
- Experience with GUI, web, or mobile agents.
- Strong programming skills in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch.
- Ability to identify research directions and build working prototypes.
- Knowledge of agentic systems, tool use, function calling, MCP, or multi-step planning.
- Experience with code generation, program synthesis, or software engineering agents.
- Experience with UI code generation or automated web development, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, and Playwright.
- Publications in venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, or AAAI.
Location & details#
- Location: Markham, Ontario, Canada.
- Work Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: $58,000 to $104,000 annually, based on 2,080 hours per year, depending on education and experience.
About Huawei Canada
Huawei Canada operates as a division of the global information and communications technology provider founded in 1987. The company focuses on research and development, specifically in 5G technologies, cloud services, and network infrastructure. It maintains a significant presence in Canada with its main headquarters in Markham and multiple research facilities across the country. The Canadian operations employ over 1,700 people.
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