AI Security Researcher

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 (PhD graduate, Senior or Principal level) Researcher specializing in Computer Vision, Multimodal or lightweight model design 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, Generative AI, and on-device AI.
• Conduct research in content security to design and build state-of-the-art solutions or novel AI model architecture for global abuse detection and prevention systems, improving detection robustness, generalization, and reliability of the solution with explainability, and reducing bias.
• Continuously research and evaluate emerging technologies, staying current on published state-of-the-art GenAI, Deep Learning, machine learning (ML) methods, technologies, and applications.
• Explore research opportunities and establish research collaboration with academia.
• Design new features, identify and design the right metrics, and 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.
• Effectively 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 Computer Vision/Multimodal/GenAI. Applying for Security is an additional bonus.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on research on Transformer, CNN and Diffusion architecture, neural network editing. Use of Deep Learning concepts and technologies.
• Proven success in designing lightweight, high performance architecture and models for devices, solving challenging problem in content security is a big plus.
• Experience in bias detection and prevention, explainable AI, robustness improvement is a plus.
• Good knowledge of Python and hands-on experience with some NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, public cloud environments and technologies. Mobile development experience is a plus.
• Proven records in top-tier publications, e.g., TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, etc.
• Ph.D. in CV/AI/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!