Senior Researcher - Data Foundation Security

The Digital Trust Lab is dedicated to ensuring user data flows while maintaining privacy. Researchers focus on key areas such as user identity authentication, data integrity, privacy protection, extensive model privacy assessment, multi-modal data identification, differential privacy, and federated learning. The lab supports deep research and encourages publications in leading journals. Research outcomes are applied across various Huawei product lines, including mobile phones, smart devices, and communications technologies.

• Conduct advanced security research into threats, vulnerabilities, and defense mechanisms related to data infrastructure across the full lifecycle, from endpoint devices and on-device agents to databases, cloud services, and AI/LLM platforms.

• Research, propose, design, and prototype next-generation data and AI security foundations, including:

  • AI/LLM/Agent data security (inference-time data leakage, agent memory isolation, tool-use and action safety).

  • Database and data-platform security, including access control, isolation, auditing, and secure query execution.

  • Secure computation and cryptographic primitives (e.g., secure enclaves, MPC, HE, ZKP) for data- and model-centric workloads.

• Producing insights of technology development in both academia and industry.

• Work closely with other research labs worldwide and product teams to optimize the solution and deliver concrete impact to real products.

The total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $127,000 to $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.