About the Role
Huawei is seeking exceptional candidates to pursue research in robot learning, dynamics, and control for real robot systems. The role involves developing novel contributions, publishing in top-tier venues, and open-sourcing code. This is an opportunity to collaborate with a diverse team and apply innovations in the real world.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-impact research output in robot learning, dynamics, and/or control for real robot systems.
- Write research-level code for testing novel ideas and new approaches.
- Effectively communicate research findings through journal and conference publications.
- Aid in progressing research fields by open-sourcing code.
Requirements
- PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field.
- Exceptional masters students with real robot experience will be considered.
- Publications in top-tier conferences/journals (e.g., Science Robotics, TRO, ICRA, RSS, RAL, CoRL, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, Nature, JMLR).
- Experience working with real robots.
- Strong understanding of robotics and machine learning.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience with PyTorch.
- Experience with C++ (Desired).
- Understanding of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms (Desired).
- Training and deploying RL policies on real systems (Desired).
Skills
- Robot learning (imitation/reinforcement learning)
- Dynamics
- Control
- Real robot systems
- Embodied AI
- Behavior synthesis from natural language
- Dynamic modelling
- World models for robotics
- Python
- PyTorch
- C++
- Transformer architectures
- Attention mechanisms
- RL policy training and deployment
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- PhD or exceptional Masters with experience
Education Level
- PhD
- Masters
About the Company
- Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
- Huawei has 207,000 employees and operates in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people.
- Huawei's vision is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
- Huawei works in close partnership with leading academic institutions in the UK to develop and refine the latest technologies.
- Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees.
- Huawei has design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Ipswich.
- Core values include: Staying customer-centric, Inspiring dedication, Persevering, Growing by reflection.
