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

In Cloud Content Security Lab at the Huawei Finland Research Center, our mission is to protect the online safety of millions of users. We are looking for a motivated AI Security Researcher specializing in Machine Unlearning to develop robust solution to ensure safety in LLM or Multimodal LLM.

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of this mission, responsible for designing and implementing cutting-edge neural network architectures, algorithms and methods for unlearning. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, external research partner and have the opportunity to publish groundbreaking research, making a direct impact on a safer digital environment.

Location: This position is located at our R&D office in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland.

This is a full-time consultant position. The consultant shall be employed by Huawei's supplier.

Main responsibilities:

• Conduct research in machine unlearning to develop novel architecture and methods for effective “forgetting” or “correction” while maintaining utility.
• Design and develop comprehensive evaluation methodology, metrics, and benchmark for machine unlearning to measure effectiveness of the unlearning methods and side effect in LLM or Multimodal LLM.

• Provide insights on the latest advancements in the field of machine learning and propose research ideas.
• Collaborate with top research groups in this field.
• Present complex research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences, including legal and product teams and design the end to end solution collaboratively.

Qualifications:

• Excellent experience in deep learning neural network design, know-how with a strong background in Explainable and Trustworthy AI.
• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence a related field with a focus on efficient and robust neural network architecture design, machine learning, AI security and safety.
• Proven experience with machine unlearning research, including a strong theoretical understanding of the state-of-the-art algorithms and their applications.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python and experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Track record of publications at top-tier conferences with a focus on unlearning, AI Security, Privacy (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, USENIX, ACM CCS, S&P, etc)
• Deep knowledge of common AI architectures (LLMs, VLMs, Transformers, CNNs, Diffusion Models).
• Self-driven, strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• A passion for research and a desire to push the boundaries of reliable, robust high performance AI system.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have 207,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

Huawei continues to invest in basic research and open innovation, and accommodates and addresses customer needs with an open mind, while steering these needs with science and technology. We have also built flexible business models and encourage numerous industries to adopt a vast range of models and applications. Through such initiatives, we are bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

We seek and reward talent! At Huawei, if you are dedicated to creativity, engagement of technical risks and delivery of target-driven results, your efforts will be rewarded with outstanding career prospects.

About Huawei Finland R&D

With 28 sites across Europe and over 2000 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. Huawei Finland Research Center was established in 2012. At our sites in Helsinki and Tampere, you will have an outstanding opportunity to be part of the leading research and development of future smart devices. We offer a career in a forward-looking industrial research team with a solid track record in innovation and publication and delivering its result as factual contributions to on-the-market devices