Artificial Intelligence Applications Developer - Spanish Required

Cuso International; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 127,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Canada is seeking a Technology Ecosystem & Academic Relations Lead on a 12-month contract to build and manage an external technology network across universities, research labs, startups, and industry organizations. You will identify key researchers and leaders and develop expert profiles, institution maps, technology landscape maps, and collaboration pipelines.

The role involves organizing workshops, seminars, closed-door roundtables, and visits at major conferences, turning events into

Qualifications

• Two or more of the following areas: AI/foundation models, computing architecture, model serving, emerging devices, or open-source ecosystems.
• Excellent communication with professors, researchers, enterprise scientists and venture partners.
• Ability to organize high-quality technical events (workshops, seminars, roundtables, exchanges).
• Ability to summarize expert views and write trend reports and maps.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Huawei Canada’s external technology network across universities, labs, enterprises, open-source communities, startups, and industry bodies.
• Identify key professors, researchers, architects, and product leaders; build expert profiles and collaboration pipelines.
• Convert workshops into expert relationships, insights and collaboration opportunities.
• Organize technical events during major conferences and ensure actionable outcomes.

Skills

AI

Computing architecture

Model serving

Emerging devices

Open-source communities

Education

Master’s or PhD-level research experience

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Technology Ecosystem & Academic Relations Lead.

About the team:

The Technology Planning and Cooperation Department promotes strategic innovation across all of Huawei Canada. Working with fellow experts, the focus is researching new and upcoming areas of technology as well as strategic planning to help achieve long term vision of Huawei. This department offers a unique opportunity to leverage both technical and business skills.

About the job:

Build and maintain the institute’s external technology network across universities, research labs, enterprise research groups, open-source communities, startups, and industry organizations.

Identify key professors, researchers, architects, engineers, founders, open-source maintainers, and product leaders. Build expert profiles, institution maps, technology landscape maps, and collaboration pipelines.

Help the institute enter higher-quality technology circles and research communities.

Identify and analyze key industry trends by attending major conferences, summits and Exhibitions spanning AI research, Systems architecture, Computing and semiconductor, Product and device, and open-source ecosystems.

Design and organize technical workshops, seminars, closed-door roundtables, and expert visits. Identify and invite high-quality speakers from academia, industry, startups, and open-source communities.

Convert each workshop into expert relationships, technical insights, and potential collaboration opportunities.

Convert fragmented external information into useful internal intelligence.

Identify and move forward collaboration opportunities around the institute’s strategic research directions.

The total target annual compensation (based on 2,080 hours per year) ranges from $127,000 to $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

Job requirements

About the ideal candidate:

Possess a solid understanding in at least two of the following areas:

• AI, foundation models, multimodal AI, or agentic systems
• Computing architecture, AI chips, GPUs, heterogeneous computing, or AI infrastructure
• Model serving, inference engines, cloud computing, edge computing, or AI platforms
• Emerging devices, XR, AI PCs, AI phones, robotics, or next-generation terminals
• Open-source communities, developer ecosystems, or software engineering infrastructure

Able to communicate professionally with Professors, academic researchers, enterprise research scientists, technical investors and venture partners.

Able to independently or jointly organize high-quality technical events, including but not limited to Workshops, Seminars, Closed-door roundtables, Academic exchanges, Institute open days and side meetings during major international conferences.

Ability to summarize expert views and conference observations, and write technology trend reports, expert maps, institution maps, and collaboration recommendations.

Ability to provide structured inputs for executives, research leaders, and technical teams.

Experience in universities, research institutes, corporate research labs, technology strategy teams, developer ecosystem teams, or industry research teams is an asset.

Experience organizing academic conferences, technical workshops, industry forums, or developer events is an asset.

Master’s or PhD-level research experience.

Huawei Canada is committed to a fair, inclusive, and accessible recruitment process. If you require accommodation during any stage of the hiring process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

All applications for this position are reviewed directly by our hiring team, we do not use artificial intelligence tools to screen or select candidates.