Indoor Positioning and Navigation System Research Internship

About Huawei Research and Development UK Limited

Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 100,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. Huawei R&D UK have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Ipswich and Bristol. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies.

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This spirit of innovation has led Huawei to work in close partnership with leading academic institutions in the UK to develop and refine the latest technologies. The company’s commitment to investment in R&D in the UK, through university partnerships or bespoke facilities such as the photonics centre in Ipswich, will keep the country at the forefront of global digital innovation. And through this commitment, the UK will play an increasingly significant role in helping Huawei to develop the technologies of the future that will transform the way we all communicate, work and live.

For the past 30 years we have maintained an unwavering focus, rejecting shortcuts and easy opportunities that don’t align with our core business. With a practical approach to everything we do, we concentrate our efforts and invest patiently to drive technological breakthroughs.

This strategic focus is a reflection of our core values:

• staying customer-centric,
• inspiring dedication,
• persevering,
• Growing by reflection.

Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Overview

Huawei’s vision is a fully connected, intelligent world.

To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centres around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centres in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Ipswich and Bristol. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey and drive your career forward.

Job Summary
Huawei R&D UK is now offering internships in the field of Indoor Positioning. The positions are open in its Edinburgh Research Centre. The team you will be joining is systems-focused, so we are looking for engineering-minded researchers with a focus on developing algorithms to advance the location context awareness for smart phones and other wearables or handheld devices. The successful candidates should be able to demonstrate relevant scientific skills, or engineering skills, undertaking R&D in data driven localisation, robotics or AI systems. We’re looking to recruit from various level of
students with skills that would enable them to harness and sharpen their R&D  experience. Nevertheless, candidates with strong exposure to signal processing, AI (Unsupervised / Reinforcement) activity recognition and features engineering are encouraged to apply.

Job Purpose:
Working as part of the Huawei positioning & navigation team sums a spectrum of empirical computer science research and data driven solution engineering. This team in Edinburgh Research Centre is responsible for algorithm developing, prototyping and identifying opportunities to improve Huawei devices user’s experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluating and assessment of alternative indoor positioning & navigation algorithms for smartphones & wearables.
• Assisting in implementation of components to enrich data pipeline, working with Qualitative data, features engineering, data clustering, classification and dimensionality reduction.
• Support the research team in building automated testing and evaluation reports for key technical components.
• Contribute to the overall competence of Huawei’s research and development of positioning and radio-map construction.
• Realise and procure innovations for the future development of positioning and navigation technologies.

Person Specification:
List details of Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications needed to do the job:

• Required:

• Previous experience in at least two of the following:
  – RF Signal Processing.
  – Data Regression / Augmentation.
  – Geomagnetic Map Construction.
  – RF SLAM / Crowd-Sourcing.
  – Machine Learning / Deep Learning.
  – Smartphone Indoor Navigation.
• Reasonable programming skills in at least one of: Java, Python or C++
• Ability to discuss, evaluate and run algorithms developed by other team members.
• Enrolment in relevant undergraduate or post graduate course.

Desired:

• Relevant experience delivering innovations and R&D projects.
• Contributions to open-source projects related to qualitative data frameworks or pipelines.
• Previous experience in geospatial data science.
• Publications records in related topics.

We Wish You are

• A PhD student or candidate in Computing Science, Database, Programming Languages or other related programmes;
• Have a strong academic background and programming skills, published paper on top conferences or journals in the related fields is preferred;
• Be able to work minimum 3 month, 20 hours per week.

What we offer

• Outstanding research and development experience;
• Mentorship from experienced professionals;
• Access to the cutting-edge technologies;
• Opportunity for training and development;
• Competitive salary and incentive schemes;
• Full time or part time, from 3 to 12 months, renewable;
• The possibility of a permanent position after internship.

How to apply

If you wish to apply for this position and believe your experience and skills are suitable, please email a copy of your CV and cover letter to [email protected]

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