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PhD Researcher, AI Research
Autodesk
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
- On-site
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Staff Research Scientist
ServiceNow
Montréal, QC
- Full-time
- Hybrid
As a Staff Researcher, you will work on research questions that most AI labs simply do not have access to. ServiceNow AI Research is chartered to build the future of enterprise agentic AI,…
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Student Researcher, PhD, Fall 2026
Google
Waterloo, ON · Toronto, ON · Montréal, QC
…program in Computer Science or a related field. Our Student Researcher opportunities are flexible in time commitment, length of opportunity, and onsite/remote nature, depending on the…
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Student Researcher, BS/MS, Fall 2026
Google
Waterloo, ON · Toronto, ON · Montréal, QC
…program in Computer Science or a related field. Our Student Researcher opportunities are flexible in time commitment, length of opportunity, and onsite/remote nature, depending on the…
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Research Intern, PhD, Summer 2027
Google
Toronto, ON · Waterloo, ON
…earlier academic year we encourage you to apply to the Student Researcher…
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Research Intern, PhD, Summer 2027
Google
Montréal, QC
…earlier academic year we encourage you to apply to the Student Researcher…
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Student Researcher, PhD, Winter-Summer 2027
Google
Montréal, QC
…pursuing a full-time role at Google following their Student Researcher engagement are encouraged to apply through standard external hiring…
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Student Researcher, BS/MS, Winter-Summer 2027
Google
Montréal, QC
…pursuing a full-time role at Google following their Student Researcher engagement are encouraged to apply through standard external hiring…
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Student Researcher, PhD, Winter-Summer 2027
Google
Waterloo, ON · Toronto, ON
Unlike the Research Internship, which is a structured seasonal placement, the Student Researcher role offers greater flexibility in weekly time commitment, project duration, and…
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Student Researcher, BS/MS, Winter-Summer 2027
Google
Waterloo, ON · Toronto, ON
While the Student Researcher Program is open to students at all degree levels, the majority of our projects are designed for PhD talent. We actively welcome exceptional researchers pursuing…
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Senior System Test Engineer
LanceDB
Canada
- $180,000 to $250,000 USD / year
- Full-time
…LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next…
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Applied AI Research Scientist
Industry Professionals
Montréal, QC
If you are a forward-thinking researcher ready to take on complex challenges in a dynamic, innovation-driven environment, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the AI…
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Data Center Network Researcher
Tech Talent International
Toronto, ON
…ICT clients is expanding their DCN team by adding a fulltime researcher to help work on next generation DCN…
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Security Research Engineer - AI Security, Agentic AI & Emerging Cybersecurity
Astra North Infoteck Inc.
Toronto, ON
Must Have Technical Skills
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Senior Design Researcher
Randstad Canada
Toronto, ON
- $73.13 to $80.1 CAD / hour
- Contract
…industry-leading enterprise organization for a contract Senior Design Researcher. In this hybrid position based in Toronto, Ontario, you will join an advanced research group dedicated to…
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Security Researcher - Authentication and Authorization
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Waterloo, ON
- Full-time
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Security Researcher.
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Intern Researcher - Multimodal Learning
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Montréal, QC
- Internship
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate internship opening for a Researcher.
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Intern Researcher - Agentic AI
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Montréal, QC
- Internship
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate internship opening for a Researcher.
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Researcher - Reinforcement Learning
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Montréal, QC · Edmonton, AB · Markham, ON
- Contract
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Reinforcement Learning Researcher.
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Applied AI Researcher – Multimodal Intelligence
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Markham, ON
- Contract
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher.
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Senior Researcher - Diffusion-Based Large Language Models
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Montréal, QC
- Full-time
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.
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Co-op Researcher – Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Markham, ON
- Internship
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate 8/12/16-month Co-op opening for an Assistant Researcher.
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Intern Researcher - Efficient Architecture for LLMs
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Montréal, QC
- Internship
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate internship opening for a Researcher.
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Researcher - LLMs
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Montréal, QC
- Contract
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Researcher.
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Researcher – Parallel Computing
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Vancouver, BC
- Full-time
- On-site
Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Researcher.

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

Senior Researcher - Diffusion-Based Large Language Models

Montréal, QC, Canada

On-site

Full-time

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Job type: Full-time
Workplace: On-site
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 27, 2025

Original job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Researcher.

About the team:

Founded in 2012, the Noah’s Ark lab has evolved into a prominent research organization with notable achievements in academia and industry. The lab’s mission focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and related fields to benefit the company and society. Driven by impactful, long-term projects, the aim is to enhance state-of-the-art research while integrating innovations into the company's products and services, including LLMs, RL, NLP, computer vision, AI theory, and Autonomous driving.

About the job:

Propose and develop novel research ideas to advance the state of the art in diffusion-based language models and generative modeling for text (and possibly multimodal).
Design and study non-autoregressive and diffusion-style architectures for LLMs, including discrete/continuous diffusion, denoising objectives, and hybrid transformer–diffusion models.
Participate in applied research projects focused on: scaling diffusion LLMs to long context, improving sample quality and controllability, and reducing inference latency and compute costs.
Deliver end-to-end projects: design and run experiments, implement and debug large-scale training pipelines, analyze results, and clearly communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Collaborate with data and infra teams on data curation, evaluation, and post-training for diffusion LLMs (e.g., fine-tuning, RLHF/feedback, safety, and robustness).
Publish research in top-tier machine learning and NLP venues and contribute to open-source libraries, benchmarks, or model releases where appropriate.
(If Senior) Supervise and mentor a small group of researchers and engineers to deliver projects and publish conference papers.
Track advances across diffusion models, LLMs, and the broader AI ecosystem, and translate new developments into actionable research directions for the team.

About the ideal candidate:

A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent research experience).
First-author publications in top-tier ML / NLP venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or NAACL.
Deep understanding of generative modeling and diffusion models (e.g., denoising diffusion, score-based models, flow-matching) and how they compare to standard autoregressive LLMs.
Strong theoretical grounding in machine learning (optimization, probabilistic modeling, representation learning) and practical experience turning theory into working systems.
Hands-on expertise with: modern LLM architectures (e.g., Transformer-based models like Llama, Qwen), and diffusion or score-based models for text, images, or multimodal generation.
Strong programming skills in Python with expertise in PyTorch, and experience implementing custom training loops, distributed training, and large-scale experimentation.
Experience with modern LLM / diffusion training and inference stacks (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers & Diffusers, Accelerate, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, vLLM or similar).
Familiarity with the evaluation of generative models for language and/or multimodal tasks, including designing robust automatic and human evaluations.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly present complex ideas and results, write papers, and collaborate across research and engineering teams.

Huawei aims to support a French-speaking work environment for its employees in Quebec. We have taken steps to avoid requiring a language other than French for this position. However, proficiency in English is essential for this role for the following reasons:

The person will be required to communicate regularly with colleagues located outside Quebec, where English is the primary language used for communication between offices. In addition, the nature of the tasks related to this position, which falls within a highly specialized field of artificial intelligence, also requires knowledge of English.

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Responsibilities

The Senior Researcher at Huawei Technologies Canada will propose new research ideas, design and test diffusion-style language models, and run the full project from experiments to published results. The role also involves working with data and infrastructure teams and, at senior level, supervising and mentoring a small group.

Requirements

Candidates need a PhD in computer science, machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics or a related field, plus first-author publications at venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP or NAACL. Strong Python and PyTorch skills, hands-on diffusion and LLM experience, and fluent English are required.

Skills

Python
PyTorch
Hugging Face Transformers
Hugging Face Diffusers
Accelerate
DeepSpeed
Megatron-LM
vLLM
Llama
Qwen
Diffusion models
Score-based models
Flow matching
Distributed training
Generative model evaluation
Research paper writing
Mentoring
Scientific communication

Keywords

diffusion language models
diffusion LLM
generative modeling
score-based models
flow matching
denoising diffusion
non-autoregressive
transformer
LLM
NLP
PyTorch
Python
Hugging Face
DeepSpeed
Megatron-LM
vLLM
machine learning research
AI research
Noah's Ark lab
Huawei

Seniority

Senior

Tools

PyTorch
Hugging Face Transformers
Hugging Face Diffusers
DeepSpeed
Megatron-LM
vLLM

Languages

English

Fields of study

Computer Science
Machine Learning
Statistics
Applied Mathematics

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