Visiting Scholar and Research Intern Program 2026

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 and sharing the happiness of technological advances with more people around the world.

Content Security Lab in Helsinki Research Center’s mission to advancing technology to protect the online safety of Huawei mobile users. We are looking for a passionate and motivated Scholars and Interns 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 Security.

We are now offering paid Visiting Scholars and Internship positions to talented researchers interested in working on the following topics:

1. Robust Implicit Hate Speech Detection

2. Malicious Intent Detection on Prompt Query

3. Digital Forgetting/Machine Unlearning for Privacy and Copyright Protection

4. Towards Human Reasoning

5. Trusted Inference & QA

6. Multimodal Knowledge Representation for Common Sense and Event Reasoning

7. LLM Jailbreaking attack and defense

8. LLM Steering towards desired outputs and avoid unintended consequences.

9. Robust Deepfakes and Scam Detection

10. Agentic AI and Safety

11. Application Security

Please state the topic that you are interested in working on.

Qualifications

• Assistant Professor, Postdoc, recent PhD graduate, and PhD student in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field.

• Strong research experience in one or more of the listed topics.

• Excellent programming skills, particularly in Python.

• A passion for AI research and a commitment to ethical and Safe AI development.

• Experience with security-related research or projects is preferred.

• Strong publication record in top conferences i.e., NeurIPS/AAAI/ACL/ CVPR/ICCV/ EMNLP/ NAACL, etc.

• Good teamwork, enjoy working with multi-cultural team, passionate about challenging the status quo.

Location: Remote or on-site in Helsinki, Finland. 

Duration: Up to 6 months with a possible extension.

Why join us? 

• Opportunity to develop your skills and competencies as well as work with world-class researchers.

• Potential for publication in top-tier conferences and journals.

• Excellent working tools and state-of-art research facilities that enable you to perform at your best.

• An international atmosphere with global impact and a culture that values creativity, problem-solving and cross-disciplinary collaboration. 

Join our team at Huawei's Helsinki Research Center and contribute to groundbreaking research that protects the online safety of millions of users worldwide. We are seeking passionate and motivated PhD interns and scholars with a strong track record of solving complex problems and advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and security.

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.