Intern Researcher - Physical AI
About The Position
Huawei Canada has an immediate internship opening for a Physical AI Researcher. The Noah’s Ark lab, founded in 2012, is a prominent research organization focused on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields. The lab's mission is to enhance state-of-the-art research and integrate innovations into products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving. This role will participate in the innovative Embodied AI and Spatial AI research project, implement algorithms for proposed models and applications, deploy them into internal products, and work closely with researchers. The intern will also keep up-to-date on selected areas of ML, write scientific reports and research papers, submit manuscripts to top-tier conferences, and file high-value patents. They will also stay informed about AI industry trends, identify new opportunities, and assess gaps within the organization to inform technology planning and decision-making.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
- Strong background in generative AI and sequence modeling, particularly in vision-language or multimodal systems.
- Proven research record in AI by having at least one paper as the first author in top tier venues, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA.
- Proficient in Python and experienced with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
- Hands-on experience with robotics systems, including decision-making, planning, and control.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with real robots or ROS is an asset.
- Understanding of 3D perception, motion planning, reinforcement learning, or multimodal AI is an asset.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, sensor data, transformer-based architectures, or diffusion models is an asset.
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning and/or imitation learning methods is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the innovative Embodied AI and Spatial AI research project.
- Implement algorithms for proposed models and applications, deploy into internal product; work closely with researchers in the team.
- Keep up-to-date on selected areas of ML (such as embodied AI, LLMs reasoning) and write scientific reports.
- Stay informed about AI industry trends, identifying new opportunities, and assessing gaps within our organization; applying these insights to technology planning and decision-making, while exploring novel technological sources to enhance our competitive edge.
- Produce insight reports for the literature including the latest trends.
- Write research papers.
- Submit manuscripts to top-tier conferences and file high-value patents.
Benefits
- Fair, inclusive, and accessible recruitment process
- Accommodation during any stage of the hiring process
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