Overview

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Driven by a commitment to operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration, we have established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in Telecom and enterprise networks, Devices and Cloud technology and services.

Our ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. With 197,000 employees, Huawei is committed to develop the future information society and build a Better Connected World.

Huawei's Zurich Research Center is responsible for advanced technology research, architectural development, design and strategic engineering of our products.

The size of our cloud platform is gaining momentum and it is already planet scale. Huawei Cloud is one of the largest and fastest-growing platforms in the world. It has strong presence with over 40 availability zones located across 4 continents and 23 geographical regions, covering locations such as Germany, Hong Kong, South Africa, or Brazil, among others.

Now we are looking for a: Senior Researcher in Memory Systems

For the new ZRC Laboratory, we are seeking candidates for research on future storage systems.

Responsibilities: 

• As a member of our Huawei Zurich Storage team, you will conceptualize and develop the prototype of next-generation Computational Memory System

• Research, design, develop, and validate the key technologies of Computational Memory System in the advent of high-performance distributed memory stores exploiting emerging technologies like DPU, PIM and low-latency networking.

• Drive the intellectual property and academic cooperation strategy, along with formulating a technology roadmap for a competitive and bleeding-edge product portfolio

Requirements:

• Computer science or other domain-related disciplines
• Experience with design or development in storage or high-performance data infrastructure.
• Deep technological understanding of fast network technologies such as IB, RoCE and remote-memory technologies like RDMA
• Familiarity with mainstream server CPU architectures and memory/storage technologies
• Experience of system optimization for DB/HPC/AI workload.
• Good understanding of application accelerating based on DPU/GPU/PIM
• Good understanding of storage medium, such as SSD, DRAM, HBM
• Good understanding of OS data stack, such as Filesystem, Cache or Block device
• Good understanding of distributed system
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team-work spirit
• Fluent in written and spoken English

At the future storage research group at the Huawei Zurich Research Center, you will become part of a multicultural team of leading European Researchers with expertise spanning from microarchitectures to mathematics. 

We believe such breadth in the research domains we cover is crucial to succeed in our mission to drive new research and achieve new, innovate breakthroughs for future computing and storage systems. If this speaks to you, do be sure to apply!