(Senior) Architect for Light-weight Virtualization Technology (m/f/d)
If you are enthusiastic in shaping Huawei’s European Research Institute together with a multicultural team of leading researchers, this is the right opportunity for you!
Huawei Cloud is one of the largest and fastest-growing cloud providers in the world. We rank 2nd and 5th in terms of Cloud market share in China and in the worldwide.
Huawei is the 2nd highest private sector investor in research and the development in the world. With 107,000+ dedicated employees, Huawei has the largest R&D Institute on the planet. In Europe, we have a wide network of 27+ Research Centers dedicated to fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning.
Our Huawei Zurich Research Center is embedded in the European network and plays a pivotal role in driving innovation. The research work of our Labs is carried out not only by Huawei's internal research staff but also by our academic research partners in universities across Europe.
The Intelligent Cloud Technology Research Lab is in charge of incubating and developing cutting-edge technologies that will shape the next-generation of the Cloud Computing industry.
For our new Intelligent Cloud Technologies Lab in Zurich, we are looking for a high caliber:
(Senior) Architect for Light-weight Virtualization Technology (m/f/d)
Responsibilities
- Own a charters to improve virtualization software stack for Serverless platforms in cloud data centers
- Lead and contribute to research, design, and implementation
- Track industrial and academic trend in light-weight virtualization technologies; participate in academic and industrial conferences; extend technical collaboration with external partners
- Proficient in driving patent and publications
Requirements
Minimum qualifications:
- BSc/Master in computer science other related disciplines
- 8+ year of experience in system level programming on x86 or ARM
- Proficiency in mainstream virtualization software such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, virtio, libvirt
- Familiar with mainstream CPU architectures (x86 or ARM) and virtualization hardware extensions.
- Experienced in mainstream lightweight virtualization technologies, such as gVisor, kata container, Firecracker, cloud hypervisor, and rust-vmm
Preferred qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Sciences or other related disciplines
- Experienced in unikernel research is a plus
- Experienced open source contributor is a plus
- Publication record in the area of interest is a plus
- Experienced in open source serverless platforms such as OpenWhisk, Knative or OpenFaaS is a plus
- Working experience in major cloud provides like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and incentive schemes
- Work with top Researchers and University Professors
- Research on high-impact topics.
- Growth & development
- International mobility
- Locations
- Huawei Research Center Zürich
Huawei Research Center Zürich
About Huawei Research Center Zürich
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider.
With 20+ sites across Europe and 1500 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’s ERI since 2020 includes the Zurich Research Center (ZRC), located in Zurich, Switzerland. A major element of ZRC is a new research laboratory focused on fundamental research in the area of computing systems, spanning new hardware, new software, and new algorithms.
(Senior) Architect for Light-weight Virtualization Technology (m/f/d)
If you are enthusiastic in shaping Huawei’s European Research Institute together with a multicultural team of leading researchers, this is the right opportunity for you!
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