Intern Researcher - Multimodal Learning

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 multimodal representation learning frameworks, including but not limited to algorithm design, model development, and data processing.

• Enhancing existing representation learning frameworks through the integration of novel solutions.

• Conducting experiments on large-scale datasets to validate and evaluate proposed ideas and solutions.

• Staying current with the latest advancements in multimodal representation learning across both industry and academia.

• Contributing to the proposal of high-impact intellectual properties (e.g., patents) and publishing of research papers in top-tier AI/ML conferences.

Requirements

About the ideal candidate:

• A Ph.D. or a Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Familiar with deep learning architectures, as well as self-supervised and contrastive learning techniques.

• Hands-on experience with computer vision and natural language processing projects.

• Relevant experience in training and fine-tuning foundation models for vision and language downstream tasks.

• Strong AI/ML coding skills in Python; experienced with coding in Pytorch.

• Good communication skills, willingness to collaborate, and self-motivation.