Research Scientist - Computer Vision (Perm) in London

Job Summary

London Office of UKRD is one of Huawei’s core global R&D institutions, dedicated to breaking frontiers in artificial intelligence.

Backed by an international research team and abundant computing resources, the center focuses on core research directions including multimodal understanding and generation, vision-language large models, and embodied intelligence.

This is a permanent, full-time position located in the tech hub of King’s Cross, London.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Vi T and multimodal large model architectures with improved reasoning and efficiency
• Advance multimodal alignment, representation learning, and long-context modeling
• Explore scalable training methods for large multimodal models
• Optimize model architectures for generalization and performance
• Process large-scale multimodal data across images, videos, audio, and text
• Build pipelines for data cleaning, filtering, annotation, and quality control
• Construct and maintain datasets with versioning and reproducibility
• Optimize data mixtures and sampling strategies for model training
• Improve data quality through feedback-driven curation loops
• Build distributed training systems for large-scale multimodal models
• Optimize GPU utilization, cluster efficiency, and resource scheduling
• Develop open-source training frameworks for scalable model development
• Engineer training, inference, and serving infrastructure
• Improve scalability, stability, and performance of model systems
• Integrate multimodal capabilities into assistant and content generation scenarios
• Translate research into production and user-facing applications
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy and iterate models

Person Specification

Essential Requirements

• Academic Background: Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical disciplines.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in Python programming with strong hands‑on experience in Py Torch and deep learning frameworks.
• Core

Competencies: Strong algorithm development and implementation skills, solid mathematical and logical reasoning ability, and excellent cross‑functional communication and collaboration skills.

• Traits: Self‑driven and highly motivated toward advancing artificial intelligence (AI), with strong resilience and the ability to tackle challenging technical problems.
• Desired
• Strong track record of publications in top‑tier AI or computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, Neur IPS, ICML, ICLR)
• Hands‑on experience in large‑scale model pre‑training or fine‑tuning
• High‑impact open‑source projects or internship experience in leading technology companies within CV, NLP, or multimodal domains

What we offer

• 33 days annual leave entitlement per year (including UK public holidays)
• Group Personal Pension
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Medical expense claim scheme
• Employee Assistance Program Cycle to work scheme
• Company sports club and social events
• Additional time off for learning and development
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