Senior/Principal Researcher, NLP

Huawei Consumer Business Group is the leader in the all-scenario AI life. It covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables, mobile broadband devices, family devices and device cloud services. Huawei Consumer Business Group is dedicated to delivering the latest technologies to consumers and sharing the happiness of technological advances with more people around the world. We believe in creating safe, privacy-friendly with great user experience and quality products for our consumers. We are looking for an experienced, creative, and motivated (Senior or Principal level) Researcher specializing in NLP & Knowledge Graph to address challenges in content security and build good detection capabilities to ensure safe content is presented to users.

Main responsibilities:

• Participate in defining the content policy and research roadmap in the field of content security.
• Conduct research in content security to design and build state-of-the-art solutions/tools for global abuse detection and prevention systems, sentiment analysis, reducing bias, and improving the explainability of the solution.
• Continuously research and evaluate emerging technologies, staying current on published state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) methods, technologies, and applications.
• Explore research opportunities and establish research collaboration with academia.
• Perform data analysis to drive decision-making for the team, such as monitoring the rollout of new models, analyzing the impact of machine learning model changes, or investigating the root cause of unanticipated changes in key metrics.
• Evaluate new features and data sources to use in modeling, both to improve existing model performance and to adapt new potential model use cases.
• Identify the right metrics needed to evaluate model changes and launches, including coming up with new metrics where needed and use those metrics to drive decision making.
• Produce dashboards, short write-ups, and data visualizations to convey findings and recommendations to the team and cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

Sounds like a match for your career aspiration? Please apply if you have:

• Academic and/or industrial proven success in the area of NLP and Computer Vision/Machine Learning applied to security, multilinguals NLP.
• Motivated in hands-on research and use of Deep Learning concepts and technologies.
• Experience with some of the following concepts: multilingual text analysis, Transformers for NLP, knowledge representation, and knowledge graphs.
• Proven success in addressing content security problems on abusive content hate speech, and fake content detection is a big plus.
• Experience in bias detection and prevention, explainable AI is a plus.
• Good knowledge of Python and hands-on experience with some NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, and Keras.
• Experience with various public cloud environments and technologies is a plus.
• Ph.D. in AI/ML/NLP computer science, maths, statistics, computational linguistics, or equivalent experience.

Location

This position is located at our R&D office in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland.

This is a full time consultant position. The consultant shall be employed by Huawei's supplier.

We will start interviews immediately when suitable candidates are found, so do not hesitate to send in your application too long!