Intern Researcher- AI Agents

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.; Markham; On-site; CAD 58,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Canada is seeking an Audio, Speech, & Acoustics Research Intern to join our AI & Signal Processing Research team. You’ll explore, design, and implement cutting-edge algorithms at the intersection of acoustic signal processing, deep learning, and speech processing.

The ideal candidate is pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. in CS, with strong Python and PyTorch experience, and a track record of research activity and publications.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. in CS or related field.
• Strong foundation in AI, ML, and signal processing.
• Experience with Python and PyTorch in research settings.
• Publications in top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc.) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on AI agents, LLMs, VLMs, code generation, and multimodal AI.
• Design and develop GUI agents and coding agents for web, mobile, and computer-use environments.
• Develop SFT, reinforcement learning, agent training, tool use, and function calling approaches.
• Build research prototypes, datasets, training pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks.
• Publish findings in top-tier venues and communicate results through talks/publications.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

LLMs

VLMs

multimodal learning

reinforcement learning

generative AI

code generation

AI agents

computer vision

NLP

GUI agents

web agents

mobile agents

publications

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related

Tools

Playwright

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

browser APIs

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate 8-12-months opening for an Intern Researcher

About the Role

Huawei Canada CBG team is seeking a highly motivated Audio, Speech, & Acoustics Research Intern to join our AI & Signal Processing Research team. In this role, you will work closely with senior researchers and engineers to explore, design, and implement cutting-edge algorithms at the intersection of acoustic signal processing, deep learning, and speech processing.

About the job

• Conduct research on AI agents, LLMs, VLMs, code generation, and multimodal AI, with a focus on novel and impactful research problems.
• Design and develop GUI agents and coding agents for web, mobile, and computer-use environments.
• Develop and investigate new approaches for SFT, reinforcement learning, agent training, tool use, and function calling.
• Build research prototypes, datasets, training pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks to validate new ideas.
• Conduct rigorous experiments and analyze results to advance the state of the art.
• Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and journals and communicate results through technical presentations and publications.

The total targeted annual compensation (based on 2,080 hours per year) ranges from $58,000 to $104,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

About the ideal candidate:

• Currently pursuing a Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong background in one or more areas including LLMs, VLMs, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, code generation, AI agents, computer vision, NLP.
• GUI agents, web agents, computer-use agents, or mobile agents.
• Strong programming and implementation skills, particularly in Python, with hands‑on experience using modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Strong research ability, including problem formulation, algorithm design, experimental evaluation, and technical analysis.
• Ability to independently identify promising research directions and turn ideas into working prototypes and experimental results.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Publications in venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, or related top‑tier venues.

• Agentic systems, tool use, function calling, MCP, or multi-step planning.
• Code generation, coding agents, program synthesis, or software engineering agents.
• UI code generation or automated web/application development.
• Web technologies and browser automation, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, Playwright, or browser APIs.

Additional Information

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.