Job Description

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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.

"Huawei will continue to be an important contributor to Canada's knowledge-based economy," "Openness and diversity are Canada's great strengths. They help attract global talent and business. Huawei Canada's R&D spending creates jobs, trains talents, supports fundamental research, and accelerates knowledge-to-impact in Canada. We are proud of all of that."

Changtian Cai, President, Huawei Canada R&D.

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.

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.

"Huawei will continue to be an important contributor to Canada's knowledge-based economy," "Openness and diversity are Canada's great strengths. They help attract global talent and business. Huawei Canada's R&D spending creates jobs, trains talents, supports fundamental research, and accelerates knowledge-to-impact in Canada. We are proud of all of that."

Changtian Cai, President, Huawei Canada R&D.

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.



We are looking for students who are currently in their MSc or PhD program, passionate about research in reinforcement learning, and excited about the possibility of applying RL to self-driving cars, robotics, recommender systems, network control, and beyond.

This role involves working close with experienced researchers to design state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms that has the potential to be applied to real world challenges, to evaluate them both with common benchmarking suites and with agents in internal simulated environments as well as potentially with real cars and robots, and to publish the research results at top tier conferences.

Qualifications

Suitable research background in artificial intelligence;

Advanced research experience in deep learning and reinforcement learning a plus;

Working toward a post-graduate degree with a concentration on artificial intelligence, robotics, reinforcement learning, deep learning, or related field;

Hands-on experience with common deep reinforcement learning algorithms (DQN, DDPG, PPO, etc);

Proficiency in common programming languages (such as Python, C/C++, etc.);

Experience with one or more mainstream deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Caffe, MXNet, Torch, PyTorch and Keras a plus.

Additional Information

About Noah's Ark Lab: The Noah's Ark Lab is the AI research division for Huawei Technologies, with offices in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, and Edmonton. As a world class research lab, we dare to address the most fundamental challenges in AI so as to revolutionize the ways in which people work and live, and the ways in which companies do business for the better. Founded in 2012, the lab has now grown to cover all major areas of contemporary AI research. We welcome talented researchers, engineers and students to join us to realize our shared AI dreams.