Research Scientist (Contractor) – Multimodal Modelling
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 207,000 employees and operate in over 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. With a shared commitment to innovation and progress, both parties have worked together to achieve common goals and establish a strong partnership. The partnership between UK and Huawei help to develop the technologies of the future that will transform the way we all communicate, work and live.
For the past 30 years we have maintained an unwavering focus, rejecting shortcuts and easy opportunities that don't align with our core business. With a practical approach to everything we do, we concentrate our efforts and invest patiently to drive technological breakthroughs.
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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 and Ipswich. 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
The Multimodal Learning group at the London Research Center is seeking a Research Scientist to contribute to the development of novel modelling technology for multimodal large models. The team is tackling ambitious projects focusing on layered and controllable generation and interleaved text-and-image/video generation. The ideal candidate would have experience in Efficient Learning (Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning, Quantization, Data Efficiency), Generative Modelling (Diffusion Models, Transformers) and/or Multimodal-Large Language Models.
The research scientist will conduct both academic and applied research. They will aim to advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal modelling with top tier conference publications and will collaboratively develop advanced products and services with other groups in the company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading and participating in cutting-edge research projects, focusing on multimodal modelling.
- Devising, prototyping and patenting innovative solutions in collaboration with product teams.
- External engagement: drafting academic publications, giving talks and collaborating with academic leaders.
- Mentoring research interns and junior researchers.
Person Specification:
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Required:
- PhD degree computer science or related field; or equivalent research experience
- Hands on experience with text-to-image generation and/or (vision-) large language models.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong research track record. E.g. have published in top tier conferences including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV; and journals including JMLR and TPAMI, etc.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong coding skills: ability to quickly prototype in Python
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- PhD degree computer science or related field; or equivalent research experience
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Desired:
- Passionate about controllable and multi-layer generation and efficient learning.
- Hands on experience with ViTs, VQ-VAEs, VLMs and Diffusion Model.
- Experience mentoring other junior researchers.
- Experience working in industry and collaborating with product groups.
- Experience with PyTorch Profiler, HuggingFace PEFT/Accelerate, DeepSpeed, Megatron and Gradio.
- Hands on experience with ViTs, VQ-VAEs, VLMs and Diffusion Model.
- Passionate about controllable and multi-layer generation and efficient learning.
- Department
- AI Theory
- Locations
- Huawei London Research Center
Huawei London Research Center
Workplace & culture
This is a place where expertise and passion come together to unlock something really special to create an exciting future. Working at Huawei R&D UK, you will meet dedicated people who are passionate to bring the best product and service to customers.
About Huawei R&D UK
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.
Research Scientist (Contractor) – Multimodal Modelling
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