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.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all four corners of the earth to provide superior computing power where you need it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they’re at home, in the office, or on the go.

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.

This strategic focus is a reflection of our core values:

• staying customer-centric,
• inspiring dedication,
• persevering,
• Growing by reflection

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

Huawei is looking at for a Knowledge Computing Researcher, with research and development experience in LLM based agent, knowledge graph, knowledge reasoning/inference, semantic search (text/image/video), and question answering etc. Some experience on deep learning / logic is desirable.

As a Knowledge Graph Researcher, you are expected to have a solid understanding of the whole technology research and development cycle from research and design to implementation and evaluation, cooperating with engineering teams in headquarters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement core modules in knowledge-augmented agent systems, including knowledge retrieval, memory modelling, and task orchestration.
• Drive the development of memory capabilities for intelligent agents, integrating structured and unstructured knowledge from multiple modalities.
• Architect solutions that deeply couple retrieval systems (RAG, KGs, databases) with agent planning, reasoning, and execution workflows.
• Work closely with LLM platforms, search infrastructure, and knowledge graph systems to build collaborative end-to-end agent solutions.
• Translate cutting-edge research into deployable systems across scenarios such as virtual assistants, intelligent QA, multi-agent collaboration, and AI developer tools.
• Be part of internal engineering efforts, with responsibility of algorithms, modelling, engineering and product scaling and support.

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:

Required: 

• PhD in NLP, deep learning, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, or related fields.
• At least 3 years of work experience in at least one of the following fields is REQUIRED:
  • Knowledge engineering technologies (RDF, SPARQL, OWL, SKOS)
  • Natural Language Processing (LLM, agent, entity detection, question answering, etc.)
  • Machine Learning / Deep Learning (LSTM, transformer, etc.).
• At least 2 (3-5 would be desirable) papers published on top conference/journal in the related fields like KDD, ISWC, ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, KR.
• Excellent software design and coding skills in the recent 3 years. Strong problem-solving, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired:

• Experience of LLM based agent.
• Knowledge of various reinforcement learning (POMDP, Imitation Learning, etc.) and deep learning (word embedding, LSTM, GAN, Pretrained models etc) algorithms for NLP.
• Knowledge of building large-scale knowledge graphs, especially reasoning and inference engine on knowledge graphs.
• Experience of tensorflow, pytorch.

What we offer 

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