Researcher – AI Security

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Researcher. About the team: The AnShi Lab focuses on developing next-generation gateway software architecture by prioritizing file security and software innovation. The focus is on conducting mid- and long-term research to create high-value patents and guide datacom gateway development. The goal is to establish industry benchmarks through cloud-based, intelligent software engineering. By leveraging local resources and fostering talent, we aim to build a high-performance technical expert team, improving both organizational vitality and personnel capabilities. About the job: - Partner with malware analysts and security stakeholders to define problem scope, labeling strategy, and evaluation methodology. - Conduct industry/academic research and produce concise surveys and technical reports. - Design and implement LLM/GNN/ML approaches for malware/threat classification (e.g., family/behavior classification, malicious vs. benign). - Build scalable data pipelines for ingestion, preprocessing, deduplication, and dataset management. - Drive experimentation end-to-end: model training, calibration, benchmarking, error analysis, and iteration. - Contribute to patents/publications; (Optional) travel/conferences. The total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $106,000 to $156,000 depending on education, experience and demonstrated expertise.