[Job-offers-cs] Principal Research Scientist in AI Security (Huawei Helsinki)

[Pekka Orponen]

    About the job

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.

Content Security Lab in Helsinki Research Center’s mission to advancing 
technology to protect the online safety of Huawei mobile users in 
Harmony OS ecosystem. We build advance AI detection solutions to ensure 
content safety and safety in LLM/VLM/agentic AI such as harmful content 
detection, agentic AI safety and machine unlearning. 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 
demonstrated passion for ground-breaking research that could be scaled 
to production environment with an emphasis on the intersection of AI and 
Safety.

*Responsibilities *

  * Lead the research, design and development of highly trustworthy,
    robust and reliable, high performance, efficient detection
    solutions, generative service and Safe Agentic AI systems.
  * Contribute to the development of Online Safety Research Roadmap to
    advance AI-based detection solution and ensure the safety of AI
    systems of classification, generative AI and agentic AI systems.
  * Provide technology insights and research proposal for advancing the
    state-of-the-art research and development.
  * Design and evaluate solution architecture and design, assess the
    competitiveness of the technology.
  * Conduct hands-on research and experiments in collaboration with team
    members.
  * Establish collaboration with universities and cross-functional teams
    within the company. Active communication with internal stakeholders
    and external audiences.

*Requirements *

  * PhD in Computer Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning,
    Mathematics or other related fields.
  * 8+ years of experience, focused on the research in AI and/or
    Security field with a strong track record and high motivation to the
    Trust & Safety domain.
  * Proven experience in designing and building efficient,
    high‑performance LLMs/VLMs and agentic AI / reasoning systems,
    including model architecture, optimization and large‑scale deployment.
  * Successful experience 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 and explainable AI.
  * Experience in security threat or abuse detection, deep fake
    detection, fairness, transparency, robust and explainable AI is a plus.
  * Experience implementing solution that comply with EU online safety
    regulations and privacy protection laws (e.g., Digital Service Act,
    GDPR, AI Act) is a plus.
  * Ability to explain complex technical concepts at every level in the
    organization and transform the concepts into product.
  * Pioneering novel methods and neural networks that revolutionized
    machine learning or the AI field, or revolutionized the industry, is
    a big bonus.
  * International awards in the field of AI/ML/CV and highly recognized
    by experts of the same field.
  * Strong knowledge and experience in LLM/VLM pre‑training models,
    neural network architecture and algorithm design.
  * Strong publication record in top conferences e.g.,
    AAAI/ACL/CVPR/ICCV/EMNLP/NAACL.
  * Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in multicultural
    teams, with a proactive mindset and a passion for challenging the
    status quo.

*Location:*Helsinki, Finland.

*Why join us? *

  * As a Principal Research Scientist you will define Huawei’s strategy
    in AI Security, Machine Unlearning, and high‑performance LLM/VLM and
    agentic reasoning systems rather than just executing someone else’s
    roadmap.
  * Your research will move from top‑tier publications into large‑scale
    deployment, shaping how foundation models are secured and governed
    for hundreds of millions of users.
  * Work in our AI Security Lab in 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 will drive research program in collaborations with leading
    universities and talented teams with strong research backing for
    bold, multi‑year research initiatives.

*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.


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