GenAI Research Scientist

OPPO Research Center is seeking a passionate and innovative Research Scientist to advance our next-generation AI hardware platforms—including AI Glass/Earphone/etc.—through cutting-edge generative AI research. You will drive the design, training, and deployment of multimodal intelligence models that seamlessly integrate vision, language, and action. As part of our collaborative team, you will co-design algorithms and hardware, translate research into real-world products, and publish at top-tier AI conferences.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end research on generative AI models, focusing on vision-language or other multi-modal architectures
• Design and implement large language model (LLM) training pipelines and efficient inference strategies optimized for AI hardware
• Propose and implement AI features to enable new and smooth user experience on AI hardware
• Co-design model architectures and hardware primitives to maximize performance, power efficiency, and real-time responsiveness
• Collaborate closely with hardware engineers, software developers, and product teams to integrate research prototypes into production systems
• Publish research findings in premier AI conferences (e.g., ICLR, CVPR) and represent OPPO at workshops and symposia

Qualifications:

Minimum:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, with a focus on AI/ML
• Strong background in generative AI, with hands-on experience developing vision-language or other multimodal models
• Practical expertise in training and optimizing large language models for both cloud and edge inference
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and distributed training systems
• Demonstrated track record of publishing in top-tier AI conferences (e.g., ICLR, CVPR, NeurIPS) or equivalent industrial R&D impact
• Excellent programming skills in Python and familiarity with C++/CUDA for performance-critical components

Preferred:

• Experience with model distillation, large language model/vision-language model distillation

Benefits

OPPO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$300,000 + bonus + long term incentives benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.