Research Intern - Computer Vision

Job Summary

The Device Vision Team at Huawei UKRD in London is looking for Research Interns with experience in VLMs. The team is committed to solving challenging computer vision problems and developing efficient, ultra‑low‑power solutions that enable the next generation of smart devices to function as a universal AI assistant. The research intern will conduct academic research with us for a minimum of six months.

They will aim to advance the state‑of‑the‑art in VLMs with top‑tier conference publications and will collaboratively work with other team members on related research and applications in the company.

• Leading and participating in cutting‑edge research projects, focusing on VLMs.
• Devising, prototyping and patenting innovative solutions in collaboration with product teams.
• Build benchmarks/baselines using public datasets.
• Publish research papers at top‑tier CV/ML/AI conferences and/or journals.
• External engagement: drafting academic publications and patents.

• PhD in Computer Vision or related field (Machine Learning, Computer Graphics)
• Hands‑on experience with VLMs
• First‑author papers published in top‑tier conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Siggraph (Asia), etc.
• Strong coding skills: able to quickly prototype in Python
• Excellent communication and writing skills

• Passionate about building a universal AI assistant
• Experience working in the industry and collaborating with product teams
• Experience with PyTorch profiler, Gradio, etc. Hands on experience with VLMs
• Ninja Programmer;
  Ninja Executions

• Assignment with an industry expert as Mentor
• Fixed‑term employment contract up to two years
• 33 days annual leave entitlement per year (including UK public holidays)
• Group Personal Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life insurance
• Corporate social events