(Senior) Chief Leading Expert - New Storage Media Applications

 Company overview

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through our constant dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established leading end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries serving more than one third of the world’s population.

With 28 sites across Europe and 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’s ERI includes the new Zurich Research Centre (ZRC), located in Zurich, Switzerland. A major element of ZRC is a new research laboratory focused on research in the area of computing systems (new computing and storage hardware, new software, new algorithms).

The research work of the lab will be carried out not only by Huawei’s internal research staff but also by our academic research partners in universities across Europe. The lab will provide an “open research environment” where academics will be encouraged to visit and work on fundamental long-term research alongside Huawei staff in an environment that, like the best universities and research institutes, is open and conducive to such scientific work.

One of the directions of this new ZRC Laboratory is research on future storage systems. Huawei storage products focus on All Flash, All Cloud, and All Intelligence strategies, and we provide a wide portfolio of storage products to help customers meet storage demands brought by rapid business growth. We serve more than 8,000 customers in over 150 countries around the world, and have been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Arrays for two consecutive years. We have established joint laboratories with the world's top universities and research institutes to develop new storage technologies, and also worked with worldwide partners to provide storage solutions across various industries.

For our new Future Storage Systems Laboratory, we are seeking for a high caliber 

(Senior) Chief Leading Expert - New Storage Media Application

Key responsibilities:

• As a member of our Huawei Zurich Storage team, you will be responsible for the construction of storage system technology compensation for tapes/SSD/SSD, etc., to break through and solve the contradiction between the cost of warm and cold media, read and write latency, and performance integration, and build a new generation of media that maximizes compensation for warm and cold storage systems.

• Research, design, develop, and validate the key technologies of new storage medium application innovation. Responsible for the construction of algorithms and capabilities such as data arrangement, application feature identification, data classification, IO scheduling, and task orchestration for new warm and cold media storage systems, solving systematic problems such as slow reading and writing of warm and cold media, and responsible for the reliability of new warm and cold media storage systems Optimize performance and cost to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of storage products in warm and cold data scenarios.

• Responsible for industry insights and technical planning for new storage media applications, researching technology development trends in the evolution of warm and cold, disk control collaboration, software and hardware integration, and leading related technical cooperation.

Requirements & qualifications:

• Have been engaged in storage systems or related fields (cloud/disk) for more than 15 years, have led the application of related media in storage systems, have business success experience, and are major contributors to the core competitiveness of products.

• Keen technical insight, able to deduce the correct technological development and maturity rules in the storage or media field, and translate them into storage products.

• Have an in-depth understanding of the principles of warm and cold media (one or more types) such as disks/tape/optical disks, and be familiar with their core application scenarios.

• Be able to design system-level solutions and architecture based on the characteristics of the medium to take advantage of the new media and overcome its disadvantages.

• Understand storage system data arrangement, application feature identification, data classification, IO scheduling, task orchestration and other related algorithms, and be familiar with the principles of storage system reliability improvement and cost optimization.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, team-work spirit

• Fluent in written and spoken English