Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer - Acceleration of AI models

Job Description

<p><strong><span >Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Research Engineer.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span ><span ><br />About the team: </span></span></strong></p><p><span >The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab aims to create a leading global data analytics platform organized into three specialized teams using innovative programming technologies. This team focuses on full-stack innovations, including software-hardware co-design and optimizing data efficiency at both the storage and runtime layers. This team also develops next-generation GPU architecture for gaming, cloud rendering, VR/AR, and Metaverse applications.</span></p><p><span >One of the goals of this lab are to enhance algorithm performance and training efficiency across industries, fostering long-term competitiveness.</span></p><p><span ><br /></span></p><p><strong><span >About the job:</span></strong></p><ul><li><p>Track the trend of AI theory and technology development in the world and generate research report and proposals for promoting Ascend system accordingly.</p></li><li><p>Lead or participate in research of algorithms in accelerating the training of the market-driven AI models (CV/NLP/GNN/…), 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.</p></li><li><p>Publish relevant high-quality AI research papers when necessary and approved, and attend conferences for increasing public awareness of Huawei’s Ascend products; file high-value patents on critical algorithms/processes that are of potential business gain.</p></li><li><p>Team up with other departments/teams from Huawei’s global research centers for collaboration.</p></li><li><p>Assist the team lead on the planning of projects and definition of technology/products development road map.</p></li></ul>