Huawei Canada has an immediate Permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.About the job:- Define and advance research directions in computer vision, spatial perception, and human-centered AI.
- Develop algorithms for 2D/3D scene understanding, tracking, hand and gesture recognition, depth estimation, and real-time reconstruction.
- Develop efficient small-model pipelines for real-time detection, tracking, temporal modeling, and interaction-state recognition.
- Integrate vision foundation models, VLMs, and LLMs with lightweight perception components to enable spatial reasoning and agentic workflows.
- Optimize end-to-end vision systems for accuracy, latency, power, memory, and hardware constraints.
- Establish datasets, evaluation frameworks, success metrics, and technical milestones.
- Build high-quality prototypes, support product integration, and contribute to design reviews and mentoring.
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total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $127,000 - $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.
About the ideal candidate:- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, AI, or a related field, or a master's degree with substantial industry R&D experience.
- 5+ years of applied R&D experience in computer vision, spatial computing, robotics, or intelligent devices.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex perception or machine-learning systems from research through product delivery.
- Deep expertise in several areas, including detection, segmentation, tracking, hand pose estimation, 3D vision, camera geometry, and sensor calibration.
- Experience developing and deploying compact models using distillation, pruning, quantization, ONNX, TensorRT, TFLite, OpenVINO, or NPU acceleration.
- Strong Python and C/C++ skills with experience building real-time video-processing pipelines.
- Track record demonstrated through shipped products, impactful prototypes, patents, or publications, with strong collaboration and mentoring skills.
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