About the role#
Huawei Canada is hiring an Intern Researcher for an 8-month term within the Digital Trust Lab. This team builds security features for consumer, embedded, and enterprise computing platforms. You will work with product and engineering departments to solve system and data security problems. Your research will support products like mobile phones, smart devices, and communications technologies.
What you'll do#
- Research and design AI data security architectures and privacy protection blueprints for endpoint devices.
- Propose, prototype, and build security and privacy-preserving solutions for Huawei products.
- Investigate global technology developments, regulatory shifts, and emerging attack vectors to protect endpoint AI systems.
- Collaborate with global research labs and product engineering teams to optimize security solutions.
- Accelerate the integration of research prototypes into commercial products.
What you'll need#
- A PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of hands-on experience in security.
- Theoretical and practical understanding of system-level security and privacy technologies.
- Expertise in areas such as identity and access control, authentication, authorization, data sanitization, data loss prevention, information flow control, or confidential computing.
- Technical insight into AI security engineering, including safety alignment, data poisoning protection, backdoor detection, prompt injection protection, RAG security, or memory security.
- Experience designing and developing security solutions for complex AI systems.
- Foundations in symmetric-key and public-key cryptography.
- Proficiency in C, C++, Java, or Python.
Location & details#
- This position is based on-site in Waterloo, Ontario.
- The internship is full-time and paid, with an annual compensation range of $58,000 to $104,000 based on 2,080 hours per year.
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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