Job Description

Our team has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.
Responsibilities:

• Track the trend of AI theory and technology development in the world and generate research report and proposals for promoting Ascend system accordingly.
• Lead or participate in research of algorithms in accelerating the training of the market-driven AI models (CV/NLP/GNN/\xe2\x80\xa6), reaching/exceeding the state of the art accuracy, and develop a proof of concept of the algorithms. Those algorithms include but are not limited to the following: optimizers, loss functions, new model architecture, mix precision, model compression, learning technologies (e.g., meta-learning), etc.
• Publish relevant high-quality AI research papers when necessary and approved, and attend conferences for increasing public awareness of Huawei\xe2\x80\x99s Ascend products; file high-value patents on critical algorithms/processes that are of potential business gain.
• Team up with other departments/teams from Huawei\xe2\x80\x99s global research centers for collaboration.
• Assist the team lead on the planning of projects and definition of technology/products development road map.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring to the team\xef\xbc\x9a

• Master/PhD in Computer Science, Math/Statistics, focusing on AI & Deep Learning with solid publication records.
• 2+ years working experience in optimizing performance of training deep learning models and/or their applications to CV/NLP/GNN domains.
• Solid skills in programming in Tensorflow/Keras/PyTorch/MXNet.
• Hands-on skills in C++/Python programming.
• Excellent documentation skills in writing internal reports and/or publishing research papers.
• Excellent communication skills in internal and external presentation.
• Working knowledge of AI accelerators or the full stack of AI acceleration system is an asset.
• Strong math background in optimization (e.g., gradient descending) is an asset.

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