Researcher – Web Agent

About the role

Huawei Canada’s Web Technology Lab is looking for a permanent Researcher to advance next‑generation web technologies. The role focuses on Web Rendering and Web Agents, aiming to make the web more efficient to render and easier for both people and AI agents to use.

Key responsibilities

• Research how state‑of‑the‑art web agents (browser‑use, computer‑use, MCP‑based) interact with real‑world websites, identifying failure modes, reliability gaps, and capability ceilings.
• Study how different web technology stacks affect agent performance and define design patterns that make sites more agent‑friendly.
• Investigate how large language models perceive and reason about web content (HTML, rendered DOM, screenshots, accessibility trees) and determine the most effective representations for various tasks.
• Prototype new architectures, interaction models, and agent frameworks to empirically test hypotheses and bridge web capabilities with AI‑driven agents.

Required profile

• Solid understanding of how LLMs work, including prompting, context management, tool use, and reasoning patterns.
• Hands‑on experience building or evaluating AI agents that interact with external environments such as the web, APIs, or tools.
• Comfortable using AI‑assisted coding tools to build and iterate on prototypes independently.
• Strong research and writing skills, able to formulate clear hypotheses, design experiments, and communicate findings in structured written form.