Huawei Consumer Business Group is the leader in the all-scenario AI life. It covers smartphones, PCs 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.

Content Security Lab in Helsinki Research Center’s mission is to advance technology to protect the online safety of Huawei mobile users. We are looking for a passionate and motivated technical leader with a solid track record of solving challenging problems, advancing state-of-the-art, and a demonstrated passion for ground-breaking research that could be scaled to the production environment with an emphasis on the intersection of AI and Security.

Business direction:

Jointly define and oversee the research agenda for Content Security Lab in the direction of AI Security & Safety.

Work scope and Tasks:

• Provide technology insights and contribute to the development of Content Security Research Roadmap.
• Propose research topics and prepare research proposals for state-of-the-art research on AI Security & Safety topics. 
• Conduct state-of-the-art research on AI Security & Safety topics. 
• Assess the technology advancement and novelty of research proposal and provide technical assessment report.
• Provide technical guidance to internal and university collaborators' expert teams on solutions' architecture and design.
• Report and present findings and solutions to internal stakeholders and external audiences with effective written and verbal communication.

Requirements:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Mathematics or other related fields.

• In the past 10+ years focused on researching the AI or/and Security field with good track records.

• Successfully experienced in advanced AI in aligning AI with human values and expectations such as RLHF, adversarial training, neural network editing, formal logic & game theory, capabilities to detect and understand risks, intent modeling and reasoning, robustness, capabilities of understanding local cultures, explainable AI.

• Experience in Security threat or abuse detection, deep fake detections, fairness, transparency, and robust and explainable AI is a plus.

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts at every level in the organization

• Pioneering novel methods and neural networks that revolutionized machine learning, or AI field or revolutionized the industry is a big bonus.

• International awards in the field of AI/ML/CV and highly recognized by experts in the same field.

• Strong knowledge and experience in image, language, and multi-modal pre-training models, neural network architecture, and algorithm design.

• Strong publication record in top conferences i.e., AAAI/ACL/CVPR/ICCV/ EMNLP/ NAACL

• Good teamwork, enjoy working with multi-cultural teams, passionate about challenging the status quo.

Contract Type: This is a part-time or full time consultant position. The consultant shall be employed by Huawei's supplier