Researcher – Human-Computer Interaction

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Researcher.

About the team:

The Huawei Human-Machine Interaction Lab unites global researchers, engineers, and designers to redefine human technology relationships through user centered, hands on research. We focus on agentic AI and multimodal interaction (voice, touch, vision, gesture) across smartphones, wearables, and emerging devices—advancing agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, and intuitive human-AI interfaces. By tightly integrating sensing, algorithms, and systems, our prototype driven work ships directly to products, enabling seamless task delegation and human AI collaboration at scale.

About the job:

• Conduct HCI and human-AI interaction research for next-generation intelligent terminal devices, focusing on agentic AI, multimodal interfaces, and hardware-software integration across diverse form factors.
• Frame ambiguous device capabilities and technology questions into clear research plans, hypotheses, study designs, success metrics, and actionable recommendations. Synthesize research findings into crisp narratives, frameworks, journey maps, and design principles that influence product direction and hardware/software technical roadmaps.
• Stay current with HCI, human-centered AI, multimodal interaction, and smart hardware practices. Maintain awareness of emerging interaction paradigms across academia and industry, including LLMs, agentic systems, and intelligent interfaces. Convert external trends into practical research questions, publications, and product opportunities.
• Conduct mixed-method research — including contextual inquiry, diary studies, hardware usability testing, controlled experiments, and behavioral/log analysis — to evaluate how users understand, trust, control, and collaborate with AI systems within their physical environments.
• Prototype and test new human-AI workflows, including conversational agents, proactive assistants, multimodal task delegation, cross-device handoff, and physical-digital decision patterns.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, hardware engineers, software developers, designers, and product managers to translate user insights into interaction models, product scenarios, and evaluation rubrics.

The total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $106,000 - $156,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.