Senior Researcher, Explainable AI

Huawei; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture & sports

Phone benefits

Team-building events

Office snacks

Job summary

Huawei Consumer Business Group's Cloud Content Security Lab in Helsinki seeks a passionate researcher to advance explainable AI and safety in large-scale models. You will design interpretable techniques and evaluate alignment with human values.

The role emphasizes AI explainability, safety, and collaboration with international teams. A PhD is required, with a strong publication record and hands-on experience in PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Deep Learning, ML, Mathematics or related field.
• Strong focus on AI with Explainable AI and Safety.
• Proficiency in LLMs, neural networks, and CV architectures.

Responsibilities

• Create methods to make AI models interpretable, unbiased, transparent and aligned with human values.
• Ensure alignment between explanations and model behavior.
• Reverse-engineer neural networks to understand internal workings.
• Develop data attribution methods to quantify influence on predictions.
• Implement and integrate AI explainability tools.
• Build benchmarks/datasets to measure explanations, transparency, and treatments.
• Communicate insights to stakeholders.

Skills

Explainable AI

AI safety

Interpretable ML

Neural networks

Computer vision

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Huawei Consumer Business Group

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. We believe in creating safe, privacy-friendly, and high-quality products with great user experiences for our consumers.

Cloud Content Security Lab Mission

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

Your responsibilities

• Create new techniques to make AI models more interpretable, unbiased, transparent and aligned with human values for real-world scenarios.
• Create new techniques to ensure consistent alignment between user-centric explanations and intrinsic model behavior.
• Reverse-engineer on neural networks to understand internal workings of AI models rather than treating them as "black boxes".
• Develop data attribution methods to quantify the influence of specific data points (text and image) on a model's prediction and implement solution.
• Implement and integrate AI explainbility techniques and tools.
• Build rigorous benchmarks and datasets to measure the quality of explanations, model transparency, and effectiveness of treatments.
• Communicate insights to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Mathematics or other related fields.
• Focused on research in the AI field with good track records and high motivation in Explainable AI and Safety domain.
• Strong proficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs), neural networks, and computer vision architectures.
• Strong background in Python, Java, or C++, with deep knowledge of ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow.
• Successful experience in AI alignment to human values and expectations, model robustness improvement, controlled and continual learning, neural network interpretability and editing techniques is highly valued.
• Pioneering novel methods and neural networks that revolutionized machine learning or the AI field, or revolutionized the industry, is a big bonus.
• Strong publication record in top conferences (i.e. NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML/ AAAI/ACL/CVPR/ICCV/EMNLP/NAACL).
• Candidates with ICPC, IOI/IMO, IOAI and other international competition in computer science, machine learning, and AI, etc. are highly preferred.
• Good teamwork, enjoy working with multi‑culture teams, passionate in challenging the status quo.

Contract Type and starting date

This is a full-time permanent employee position. We expect you to start as soon as possible and job will be filled as soon as suitable candidate has found.

Why join us?

Join a high‑caliber lab: Work in our Cloud Content Security Lab in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, alongside experienced international researchers and engineers in a focused environment that values scientific excellence, depth, and real impact to protect millions of Huawei Mobile users.

You’ll enjoy access to extensive occupational healthcare, employee perks including culture & sports and phone benefits, team-building events and celebrations, employee recognition through awards and gifts, and daily office breakfasts and snacks. e are a team of multinational background, creating a unique working environment for developing imaging technologies.