Intern Researcher - Accelerated AI Training

Huawei Canada has an immediate internship opening for a 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:
• Proposing and developing advanced AI/ML with accelerated training and inference to address the real-world problems.
• Keeping track of the latest progresses in the (selected) AI/ML areas (especially large language models, efficient computing).
• Conducting experiments on large-scale data sets to verify and evaluate the proposed ideas and solutions.
• Contributing to the proposal of high-impact intellectual properties (e.g., patents), publishing of research papers in top-tier AI/ML conferences.

Requirements

About the ideal candidate:

• A Ph.D. or a Master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong AI/ML coding skills in Python; experienced with Pytorch.
• Good communication skills, willingness to collaborate and self-motivated.
• Relevant experience on CUDA programming or low-level software development for high-performance computing is an asset.
• Relevant experience on low bit training or mixed precision training is a huge asset.