Principal Research Scientist, Trust & Safety

Job description

Huawei Consumer Business Group is the leader in the all-scenario AI life. It covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables, mobile broadband devices, family devices and device cloud services. Huawei Consumer Business Group is dedicated to delivering the latest technologies to consumers. We believe in creating safe, privacy-friendly, and high-quality products with great user experiences for our consumers. Content Security Lab in Helsinki Research Center’s mission to advancing technology to protect the online safety of Huawei mobile users in Harmony OS ecosystem. We build advance AI detection solutions to ensure content safety and safety in LLM/VLM/agentic AI such as harmful content detection, agentic AI safety and machine unlearning. We are looking for a passionate and motivated technical leader with a solid track record of solving challenging problems, advancing state-of-the-art, and demonstrated passion for ground-breaking research that could be scaled to production environment with an emphasis on the intersection of AI and Safety. Responsibilities Lead the research, design and development of highly trustworthy, robust and reliable, high performance, efficient detection solutions, generative service and Safe Agentic AI systems. Contribute to the development of Online Safety Research Roadmap to advance AI-based detection solution and ensure the safety of AI systems of classification, generative AI and agentic AI systems. Provide technology insights and research proposal for advancing the state-of-the-art research and development. Design and evaluate solution architecture and design, assess the competitiveness of the technology. Conduct hands-on research and experiments in collaboration with team members. Establish collaboration with universities and cross-functional teams within the company. Active communication with internal stakeholders and external audiences. Requirements PhD in Computer Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Mathematics or other related fields. 8+ years of experience, focused on the research in AI and/or Security field with a strong track record and high motivation to the Trust & Safety domain. Proven experience in designing and building efficient, high‑performance LLMs/VLMs and agentic AI / reasoning systems, including model architecture, optimization and large‑scale deployment. Successful experience in advanced AI in aligning AI with human values and expectations such as RLHF, adversarial training, neural network editing, formal logic & game theory, capabilities to detect and understand risks, intent modeling and reasoning, robustness, capabilities of understanding local cultures and explainable AI. Experience in security threat or abuse detection, deep fake detection, fairness, transparency, robust and explainable AI is a plus. Experience implementing solution that comply with EU online safety regulations and privacy protection laws (e.g., Digital Service Act, GDPR, AI Act) is a plus. Ability to explain complex technical concepts at every level in the organization and transform the concepts into product. Pioneering novel methods and neural networks that revolutionized machine learning or the AI field, or revolutionized the industry, is a big bonus. International awards in the field of AI/ML/CV and highly recognized by experts of the same field. Strong knowledge and experience in LLM/VLM pre‑training models, neural network architecture and algorithm design. Strong publication record in top conferences e.g., AAAI/ACL/CVPR/ICCV/EMNLP/NAACL. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in multicultural teams, with a proactive mindset and a passion for challenging the status quo. Location: Helsinki, Finland. Why join us? As a Principal Research Scientist you will define Huawei’s strategy in AI Security, Machine Unlearning, and high‑performance LLM/VLM and agentic reasoning systems rather than just executing someone else’s roadmap. Your research will move from top‑tier publications into large‑scale deployment, shaping how foundation models are secured and governed for hundreds of millions of users. Work in our AI Security Lab in Helsinki, alongside experienced international researchers and engineers in a focused environment that values scientific excellence, depth, and real impact to protect millions of Huawei Mobile users. You will drive research program in collaborations with leading universities and talented teams with strong research backing for bold, multi‑year research initiatives. About Huawei Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have 207,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees. Huawei continues to invest in basic research and open innovation, and accommodates and addresses customer needs with an open mind, while steering these needs with science and technology. We have also built flexible business models and encourage numerous industries to adopt a vast range of models and applications. Through such initiatives, we are bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. We seek and reward talent! At Huawei, if you are dedicated to creativity, engagement of technical risks and delivery of target-driven results, your efforts will be rewarded with outstanding career prospects. About Huawei Finland R&D With 28 sites across Europe and over 2000 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. Huawei Finland Research Center was established in 2012. At our sites in Helsinki and Tampere, you will have an outstanding opportunity to be part of the leading research and development of future smart devices. We offer a career in a forward-looking industrial research team with a solid track record in innovation and publication and delivering its result as factual contributions to on-the-market devices.