JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title

Research Engineer – Bayesian Optimization

Department/ Group

Reinforcement Learning Team

Reports To

Haitham Ammar

Manager Position

No

Location

London

Position Type

Full time 37.5 hours per week

About Huawei Research and Development UK Limited

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have more than 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

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This spirit of innovation has led Huawei to work in close partnership with leading academic institutions in the UK to develop and refine the latest technologies. The company’s commitment to investment in R&D in the UK, through university partnerships or bespoke facilities such as the photonics centre in Ipswich, will keep the country at the forefront of global digital innovation. And through this commitment, the UK will play an increasingly significant role in helping Huawei to develop the technologies of the future that will transform the way we all communicate, work and live.

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Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Overview

Huawei’s vision is a fully connected, intelligent world.

To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Ipswich, and Bristol. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications, and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey and drive your career forward.

Job Summary

Huawei is looking for a Research Engineer with experience in Bayesian optimization. We wish to recruit exceptional candidates to pursue research in various aspects of reinforcement learning and Bayesian optimization for autonomous decision-making under uncertainty. The successful applicant is expected to develop novel contributions allowing the field to move forward in getting it a step closer to real-world applications. Key research questions include but are not limited to scalable high-dimensional Bayesian optimization, Gaussian processes, Bayesian neural networks, safe and robust reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and model-based reinforcement learning. This is an exceptional opportunity for research while collaborating with a diverse team with backgrounds ranging from mathematics and optimization to probability and game theory. We aim to publish our work in top-tier conferences and journals, including but not limited to ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, and JMLR. Our goal is to contribute to an open and transparent research environment by regularly open-sourcing the code of our novel discoveries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high-impact research output in the field of reinforcement learning, Bayesian optimization, game theory, multi-agent learning, probabilistic modeling, and/or risk-averse learning
• Write research-level code capable of testing novel ideas and new approaches
• Effectively communicate research findings to the team and to the broader community through journal and conference publications
• Aid in progressing research fields by open-sourcing code

This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The jobholder will carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required by his/her line manager. The job description and personal specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of Huawei Research and Development UK Limited.

Person Specification:

List details of Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications needed to do the job:

Required:

• PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong research background demonstrated through journal and conference submissions in any of the following: ICML, NeurIPS, AISTATS, AAAI, UAI, IJCAI, JMLR, Annals of Statistics, and Annals of Probability
• Hands-on Experience in implementing reinforcement learning, Bayesian optimisation, probabilistic modeling, and/or multi-agent algorithms
• Knowledge of Python, specifically PyTorch or TensorFlow in addition to OpenAI Gym, GPFlow, Pyro, among others
• Ability to work in a diverse interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers with different background

What we offer

• 33 days annual leave entitlement per year (including UK public holidays)
• Group Personal Pension
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Company sports club and social events
• Additional time off for learning and development

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