Researcher - Physical AI

About the role

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher. About the team: Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including Next Generation Foundation Model, Agentic Models, Physical AI and Reinforcement Learning. About the job: • Work closely with a team of researchers and engineers to tackle real-world challenges in Embodied AI and Spatial AI, bridging research and deployment. • Developing state-of-the-art approaches for Physical AI research and applications. Directions include, but not limited to, robotic foundation models, world models, multimodal representation learning, reasoning and planning, imitation learning and reinforcement learning and low-level control. • Translate problem formulations and model designs into efficient, production-ready code, and iterate rapidly through rapid experimentation. • Design and run experiments across both simulation and real-world robotic platforms, including data collection, evaluation, and performance analysis. • Collaborate across research, infrastructure, and robotics systems to close the loop between data, models, and real-world performance. • Contribute to high-impact research outputs, including patents and publications in top-tier AI and robotics venues.