Researcher - AI

The Software-Hardware System Optimization Lab continuously improves the power efficiency and performance of smartphone products through software-hardware systems optimization and architecture innovation. We keep tracking the trends of cutting-edge technologies, building the competitive strength of mobile AI, graphics, multimedia, and software architecture for mobile phone products.

• Research and development of GenAI algorithms for system optimization on edge devices, with measurable wins in latency, power, and quality.

• Collaborate closely with researchers to prototype, implement, and integrate research ideas into production-grade code.

• Design and run rigorous experiments on internal and public benchmarks; build reproducible pipelines, ablations, and statistical analyses.

• Stay current with literature; distill insights; propose and drive new directions.

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent research/engineering experience).

• Solid ML/AI foundations with hands-on GenAI experience (e.g., Diffusion Models and Large Language Models).

• Experience in application-driven research, demonstrated in projects or publications.

• Strong system development skills, such as Python (including PyTorch), C/C++, Linux shell scripting.

• Excellent communication skills, self-motivated, with creative thinking and attention to details.

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