About the role#
Huawei Canada is hiring an Intern Researcher for the Noah's Ark Laboratory. This role focuses on advancing safe and reliable embodied AI systems with a specific interest in robotic manipulation and autonomous decision making. You will work alongside researchers and engineers to turn ideas into prototypes and scalable systems.
What you'll do#
- Develop new algorithms for reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and learning from demonstration to improve agent safety and generalization.
- Design methods that use human feedback, failure cases, and negative data to refine policy learning.
- Build and study Vision-Language-Action models and Vision-Language Models for robot learning.
- Train and evaluate models in simulation and real-world robotic environments.
- Contribute to the team research roadmap by staying current on foundation models and AI safety.
- Publish your findings at major machine learning and robotics conferences and contribute to intellectual property.
What you'll need#
- You are currently pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence.
- You have a record of research excellence, shown by first-author publications at venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, or IROS.
- You have a strong background in reinforcement learning, including offline RL, policy optimization, or safe RL.
- You have hands-on experience with imitation learning, preference learning, or inverse reinforcement learning.
- You have worked with VLA models, VLMs, or other multimodal foundation models.
- You are proficient in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- You have experience with robot simulators, large-scale training infrastructure, or physical robotic platforms.
- You can independently drive research from the initial idea through to implementation and publication.
Location & details#
- Location: Markham, Ontario, Canada.
- Work Arrangement: This is an on-site position.
- Compensation: The annual salary range is $58,000 to $104,000 based on education and experience.
- Term: Rolling.
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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