Perception Research Scientist – Contractor

Job title: Perception Research Scientist – Contractor

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About Huawei

With 194,000 employees and operating in more than 170 countries and regions, Huawei is a leading global creator and provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Integrated solutions span across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services. Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

About Huawei Canada

Huawei Canada focuses on fundamental research and development aimed at solving complex technical problems in emerging technologies like 5G, AI, Human Computer Interaction and Autonomous Driving. With ongoing research initiatives with 10 Universities across Canada and strategic collaboration agreements with several Universities, we support Canada’s rich research community. In 2020, Huawei Canada ranked among the Top 20 corporate R&D investors in the country with a huge 40% increase in R&D investment year over year. Huawei Canada was established in 2008 and now has a total workforce of 1,200 in our six research centers across Canada.

“Huawei will continue to be an important contributor to Canada’s knowledge-based economy,” “Openness and diversity are Canada’s great strengths. They help attract global talent and business. Huawei Canada’s R&D spending creates jobs, trains talents, supports fundamental research, and accelerates knowledge-to-impact in Canada. We are proud of all of that.”

Changtian Cai, President, Huawei Canada R&D.

Why work with Huawei Canada?

You will have the opportunity to work on real-world problems that impact people across the globe. Many of our researchers are actively involved in publishing conference and journal papers, inventing patents and solving challenging technical problems. With cutting edge tools, access to highly specialized leaders and researchers, and significant funding, you will be well supported to fulfil your potential and pursue your professional dreams.

Job Description

We are looking for Master/PhD Degree (preferably from Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics, Earth and Space, Aerospace Studies and Mechatronics), and who are passionate about coding and building perception software systems for autonomous driving. Such systems include 3D object detection, semantic/panoptic segmentation, classification, regression, prediction and localization, as well as 3D scene understanding, and sensor fusion and tracking, using both deep learning and classical machine learning techniques and multiple sensors such as LiDAR and camera sensors.

This role involves working closely with experienced researchers to participate in the design, implementation and deployment of state-of-the-art perception algorithms and processing modules. The role inherently involves iterative algorithm training and performance evaluation using publicly available datasets, Huawei’s own labeled datasets, and live on an autonomous vehicle. The role includes the possibility of publishing on top tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, IROS, ICRA and NeurIPS.

Qualifications

• Possess a PhD degree with 2 years’ experience (outstanding fresh Ph.D. graduate is also welcome) or Master degree with 5+ years’ experience in computer vision, machine learning, computer science, mathematics, automation, or have equivalent research experiences.
• Have a strong publication record as 1st author, i.e. tier-1 conference/ journal articles such as CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, CoRL.
• Have 3+ years experiences in research on designing and applying deep learning algorithms, and relevant libraries and frameworks: PyTorch/Tensor flow/Caffe/OpenCV, etc.
• Have solid programming skills, proficient in C/C++, Python, Matlab and other programming languages.
• Have good team cooperation spirit, as well as communication and coordination ability.
• Have the following experience priority: Autonomous driving R&D experience. Leadership or management experience with a R&D team for prove of concept deliveries.

Company: Huawei

Expected salary:

Location: Markham, ON

Job date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 23:41:24 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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