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 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 includes the Zurich Research Center (ZRC), located in Zurich, Switzerland. A major element of ZRC is a rapidly growing research laboratory focused on fundamental research in the area of computing systems (new 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 world-leading scientific work.

Research scope: performance analysis and simulation methodologies for mobile workloads

Today’s mobile applications feature complex software stacks and user-centric features, such as gesture-based controls, that set them apart from other workload categories. These features not only pose unique challenges at runtime, but also require new benchmarking and simulation methodologies.

The role presents an exciting opportunity to develop novel methodologies for benchmarking, simulating and analyzing contemporary mobile workloads. A successful candidate will have a unique opportunity for cutting-edge research in an unexplored area with high potential for impact both in terms of research (e.g., through publications and presentations) and industry methodologies and products.

Responsibilities

We are looking for motivated researcher or post-doc to join our research activities and contribute in one or more of the following areas:

• Workload profiling, analysis, and bottleneck identification (e.g., using performance counters and/or binary instrumentation techniques) on a real system and on a simulator (e.g., gem5)
• Development of workload simulation methodologies and analysis of their effectiveness
• Modelling and evaluation of new simulator features
• Modelling and evaluation of new microarchitectural features in a simulator
• Modelling and evaluation of heterogeneous architectures (e.g., CPU+GPU/NPU) and heterogeneous cache hierarchies in a simulator
• Working with other researchers and product teams, including taking input and reporting on findings

Requirements

• A PhD in an area related to computer architecture, simulation methodologies, and/or performance analysis and optimization
• Extensive experience working with simulators (e.g., gem5)
• Experiencing bringing up new workloads on a real system and/or in a simulator, tuning and analyzing their performance (e.g., using performance counters and/or binary instrumentation)
• Good understanding of modern CPU architecture and microarchitecture
• Strong communication skills, ability to perform and present detailed analysis of experimental results
• Strong motivation to join a cutting-edge industrial research environment

Benefits

At the Zurich Research Center, the successful candidate becomes part of a multicultural team of leading European researchers with expertise spanning from microarchitectures to mathematics. We believe such breadth is crucial to succeed in our mission to drive new fundamental research and achieve new innovative breakthroughs in future computing systems. If this speaks to you, please be sure to apply!