139 AI Researcher jobs in Canada

Huawei Canada has an immediate 4/8 months Internship opening for an AI Efficiency Researcher.

About the Team:

Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory and Autonomous driving.

About the Job:

• Engage in cutting-edge research on AI system optimization, with a focus on enhancing performance on edge devices.

• Research and develop efficient algorithms and models to minimize the computational and storage overhead on edge devices.

• Explore and implement AI model optimization techniques tailored to specific hardware platforms, such as model quantization, pruning, and distillation optimization.

• Evaluate and analyze the performance of optimized AI models in real-world application scenarios.

• Collaborate with team members to solve technical challenges and contribute to academic paper writing and publication.

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Senior Researcher.

About the team:

The Technology Planning and Cooperation Department promotes strategic innovation across all of Huawei Canada. Working with fellow experts, the focus is researching new and upcoming areas of technology as well as strategic planning to help achieve long term vision of Huawei. This department offers a unique opportunity to leverage both technical and business skills.

About the job:

• Survey, analyze, identify, and envision significant innovations in fundamental and applied AI.

• Produce brief reports and systematic analyses on important innovations and trends.

• Communicate with collaborating teams to promote innovations with substantive potential.

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher.

About the team:

The Emerging Storage Lab is a research group based at Huawei Canada's Toronto and Vancouver Research Centre that is focused on next-generation storage technologies and innovations. Our team comprises graduate computer engineers and computer scientists with diverse industry experience, ranging from 0 to over 20 years. This lab investigates various storage-related topics, including data management, data catalog, data fabric, file systems, storage networks, and AI storage, aiming to advance the field and drive data storage technological progress in the new AI era.

About the job:

• Conduct advanced research on the intersection of AI and data storage, developing state-of-the-art storage technologies to enhance AI training and inference.

• Explore and implement emerging storage technologies designed to accelerate AI workloads and improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure.

• Design the architecture of storage components and subsystems to meet the unique demands of AI-driven applications and workloads.

• Develop software solutions that address key technical challenges in storage systems, including functionality and performance testing.

• Work closely with international teams, leveraging global expertise to advance research and enhance the quality of storage solutions.

• Stay updated with the latest research and trends by studying state-of-the-art work and applying innovative ideas to solve complex problems.

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.

About the team:

The Emerging Storage Lab is a research group based at Huawei Canada's Toronto and Vancouver Research Centre that is focused on next-generation storage technologies and innovations. Our team comprises graduate computer engineers and computer scientists with diverse industry experience, ranging from 0 to over 20 years. This lab investigates various storage-related topics, including data management, data catalog, data fabric, file systems, storage networks, and AI storage, aiming to advance the field and drive data storage technological progress in the new AI era.

About the job:

• Conduct advanced research on how AI and data storage intersect, focusing on developing innovative storage technologies that enhance AI training and inference.

• Explore and implement emerging storage technologies that are specifically designed to accelerate AI workloads and improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure.

• Design the architecture of storage components and subsystems to meet the unique demands of AI-driven applications.

• Implement software solutions that optimize storage systems for AI processes, ensuring they can handle large-scale data and computational requirements.

• Attend top international conferences such as NeurlPS, ICLR, FAST, FMS, and more to gain insight into the latest and future technology trends.

• Work closely with international teams, leveraging global expertise to enhance the quality and impact of your work.

• At the conclusion of projects, travel to our headquarters in China to deliver your findings, contribute to strategic discussions, and ensure seamless integration of your work into broader company initiatives.

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.

About the team:
The Human-Machine Interaction Lab unites global talents to redefine the relationship between humans and technology. Focused on innovation and user-centered design, the lab strives to advance human-computer interaction research. Our team includes researchers, engineers, and designers collaborating across disciplines to develop novel interactive systems, sensing technologies, wearable and IoT systems, human factors, computer vision, and multimodal interfaces. Through high-impact products and cutting-edge research, we aim to enhance user experiences and interactions with technology.

About the job:

• Design and implement speech foundation models and speech language models (SLMs) for a variety of applications

• Develop algorithms for speech and acoustic signal processing, including ASR, speech enhancement, beamforming, and acoustic event detection

• Conduct original research and prototyping using deep learning, transformers, RNNs, and other modern machine learning techniques

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to bring speech-related solutions from concept to integration into real-world systems

• Evaluate and benchmark algorithms using both quantitative metrics (e.g., WER, PESQ, STOI) and qualitative assessments

• Develop robust infrastructure and pipelines to support rapid experimentation and deployment of research ideas

• Stay at the forefront of developments in speech technology, foundation models, and conversational AI, and incorporate state-of-the-art methods into research and product development

Huawei Canada has an immediate internship opening for an Embodied AI Researcher.

About the team:

Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving.

About the job:

• Research and develop innovative models of LLM agents (decision-making, planning, reasoning, etc) with applications on (open-world) virtual environments;

• Publish at top-tier ML conferences, file high-value patents, and write scientific technical reports;

• Contribute to the design, implementation, test, and maintenance of research and development frameworks;

• Ability to learn and grow in a collaborative research and development environment; communicate and develop solutions for complex learning problems;

• Keeping up-to-date on selected areas of ML (such as Transformers, State Space Models, and deep learning) and new advances in the NLP/AI field and bringing insights to the team.

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.

About the team:

Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving.

About the job:

• Working closely with a team of experienced researchers to solve real world challenges in the domain of Embodied AI.

• Developing state-of-the-art approaches for Embodied AI applications. Directions include, but not limited to, generative AI, representation learning, foundation models, reasoning, planning, data generation and augmentation, reinforcement learning, and low-level control.

• Translating mathematical problem definitions and model/solution specifications into efficient executable code.

• Conducting evaluation and empirical studies using robotic platforms in both simulation and real-world.

• Proposing high-impact intellectual properties (e.g., patents), and publishing or contributing to research papers in top-tier AI venues.