Senior Researcher – Computer Vision & Human-Centered AI

About the role

Senior Researcher position in Huawei Human-Machine Interaction Lab in Markham, focusing on computer vision, spatial perception, and human-centered AI to advance agentic workflows and intuitive human-AI interfaces.

Key responsibilities

• Define and advance research directions in computer vision, spatial perception, and human-centered AI.
• Develop algorithms for 2D/3D scene understanding, tracking, hand and gesture recognition, depth estimation, and real-time reconstruction.
• Create efficient small‑model pipelines for real‑time detection, tracking, temporal modeling, and interaction‑state recognition.
• Integrate vision foundation models, VLMs, and LLMs with lightweight perception components for spatial reasoning and agentic workflows.
• Optimize end‑to‑end vision systems for accuracy, latency, power, memory, and hardware constraints.
• Establish datasets, evaluation frameworks, success metrics, and technical milestones.
• Build high‑quality prototypes, support product integration, and contribute to design reviews and mentoring.

Required profile

• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, AI, or related field, or a master’s degree with substantial industry R&D experience.
• 5+ years of applied R&D experience in computer vision, spatial computing, robotics, or intelligent devices.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex perception or machine‑learning systems from research through product delivery.
• Deep expertise in detection, segmentation, tracking, hand pose estimation, 3D vision, camera geometry, and sensor calibration.
• Experience developing and deploying compact models using distillation, pruning, quantization, ONNX, TensorRT, TFLite, OpenVINO, or NPU acceleration.
• Strong Python and C/C++ skills with experience building real‑time video‑processing pipelines.
• Track record of shipped products, impactful prototypes, patents, or publications, with strong collaboration and mentoring abilities.

Required skills

• Python
• C/C++
• ONNX
• TensorRT
• TFLite
• OpenVINO
• NPU acceleration
• Model distillation, pruning, and quantization