2026 - Principal Personalization and Recommendation Researcher - Permanent

Location: Dublin, Ireland ## What you'll do lead major research workstreams in next generation personalization and recommendation systems. The role sits at the intersection of recommender systems research, large scale sequential modeling, and industrial personalization. You will work on systems that model user behavior across rich interaction streams, learn robust item and event representations, and support high quality personalized experiences across different domains and product scenarios. A central part of the role will be to contribute to Huawei’s roadmap in generative recommendation and next generation personalization. This includes semantic ID representations, transformer based sequential recommendation, efficient attention for long sequences, unified recall and ranking architectures, and principled evaluation of large scale recommendation models. We are looking for a senior researcher who combines hands on modeling experience with strong technical judgment. The successful candidate will own important research workstreams, contribute to technical direction, mentor team members, and translate promising ideas into production relevant systems. ## What you'll bring Research or industrial experience in generative recommendation, semantic IDs, long sequence modeling, efficient attention, or foundation models for recommendation. - Experience contributing to unified recommendation architectures across retrieval and ranking. - Experience with personalization systems across multiple domains, modalities, or product surfaces. - Experience studying scaling laws, model capacity, sequence length, or data scaling in recommendation systems. - Publications in leading venues such as RecSys, KDD, WWW, WSDM, SIGIR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, or related conferences. ## About Huawei Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population. Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PCs and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc. Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) is part of CBG and develops new cloud services offered free of charge to Huawei mobile device users. HMS ecosystem is now the third largest ecosystem in the world with more than 96,000 global apps integrated with HMS Core. HMS Apps continues to launch globally, with content apps such as ### Huawei Music, ### Huawei Video, ### Huawei Themes, ### Huawei Reader and ### Huawei Game Center taking centre stage in various countries and regions. ## About the IRC Huawei Ireland Research Centre's (IRC) mission is to position Huawei as a recognized technology leader and global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. To achieve this we are building an industry-recognized multi-discipline Research Centre of experts focusing on medium-term to long-term issues. The IRC will work closely with an open innovative ecosystem with Huawei customers to address real-world issues. The IRC will also engage with key European universities to build a basic research capability to support Huawei technical projects. ## About the Job As a Principal Researcher in Personalization and Recommendation at Huawei Ireland Research Centre, …

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