PhD Internship and Visiting Scholars Program for 2026

Huawei; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Opportunity to work with world-class researchers

Access to research facilities

Flexible work arrangements

Potential for publication in top-tier journals

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks motivated PhD interns and scholars for positions focused on AI research and security at its Helsinki Research Center. Candidates should have a strong background in computer science and excellent programming skills, particularly in Python. The role offers competitive compensation, the chance to work with renowned researchers, and the potential for academic publication in top-tier conferences. Join the mission to protect online safety for millions worldwide.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have a PhD or be a PhD student in a relevant field.
• Strong research experience in AI or security is crucial.
• Excellent programming skills in Python are required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct advanced research in AI and security topics.
• Collaborate with a diverse team on innovative projects.

Skills

AI research

Python programming

teamwork

Education

PhD in computer science or related field

Job description

Huawei Consumer Business Group is the leader in the all-scenario AI life. It covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables, mobile broadband devices, family devices and device cloud services. Huawei Consumer Business Group is dedicated to delivering the latest technologies to consumers and sharing the happiness of technological advances with more people around the world.

The Cloud Content Security Lab at Helsinki Research Center is dedicated to driving technological advancements to protect the online safety of Huawei mobile users in Harmony OS ecosystem. We build advanced AI detection solutions to ensure content safety and AI safety such as harmful/malicious content detection, agentic AI safety, machine unlearning. We are looking for passionate and motivated Scholars and Interns with a solid track record of solving challenging problems, advancing state-of-the-art, and passion for ground-breaking research that could be scaled to production environment with an emphasis on the intersection of AI and Security.

We are now offering paid Visiting Scholars and Internship positions to talented researchers interested in working on the following topics:

• Data Quality and Engineering
• Secure Agentic AI System
• Faithful Explanation Towards Human Reasoning
• Multimodal Knowledge Representation for Common Sense and Cultural Reasoning (conversational system)
• LLM Steering towards desired outputs and avoid unintended consequences.
• LLM Safety Alignment
• Data Attribution for improving Model Performance

Please state the topic that you are interested to work on in your application.

Qualifications

• Assistant Professor, Postdoc, recent PhD graduate, and PhD student in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field.
• Strong research experience in one or more of the listed topics.
• Excellent programming skills, particularly in Python.
• A passion for AI research and a commitment to ethical and Safe AI development.
• Experience with security-related research or projects is preferred.
• Candidates with ICPC, IOI/IMO, IOAI and other international competition in computer science, machine learning, and AI, etc. are highly preferred.
• Strong publication record in top conferences i.e., NeurIPS/AAAI/ACL/ CVPR/ICCV/ EMNLP/ NAACL, etc.
• Good teamwork, enjoy working with multi-cultures team, passionate in challenging the status quo.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity to work with world-class researchers
• Access to state-of-the-art research facilities
• Flexible work arrangements
• Potential for publication in top-tier conferences and journals

Locations

On-site at our Helsinki Research Center Ruoholahti office.

Duration

Visiting scholar positions and Internships will be offered for 3-6 months, with a possible extension. The program runs with immediate effect until December 31, 2026.

Join our team at Huawei's Helsinki Research Center and contribute to groundbreaking research that protects the online safety of millions of users worldwide. We are seeking passionate and motivated PhD interns and scholars with a strong track record of solving complex problems and advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and security.

Join us in protecting the online safety of millions of users worldwide!