Distinguished Architect - Data and AI

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.; Markham; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in York Region seeks a Distinguished Architect to develop frameworks for next-generation data and AI systems. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of experience in AI data processing, strong problem-solving skills, and a relevant degree. The role includes team leadership, mentoring, and generating innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in implementations of AI data processing and system optimizations.
• Experience leading teams with business impact and customer success.
• Able to mentor on design/technical skills including multi-threading and concurrency.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop framework for next-generation data and AI system.
• Analyze user scenarios for optimized software system solutions.
• Generate innovative ideas and new patent applications.

Skills

AI end to end data processing

Core database internals

Large scale data processing

Strong problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications

MS or PhD

Tools

Flink

Spark

RocksDB

Redis

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Distinguished Architect.

About the team

The Distributed Data Storage and Management Lab leads research in distributed data systems, aiming to develop next-generation cloud serverless products that encompass core infrastructure and databases. This lab addresses various data challenges, including cloud-native disaggregated databases, pay-by-query user models, and optimizing low-level data transfers via RDMA. Teams within this lab create advanced cloud serverless data infrastructure and implement cutting-edge networking technologies for Huawei's global AI infrastructure.

About the job

• Understand competitive landscape for data processing and serverless infrastructure in cloud.
• Architect and develop framework/engine for the next-generation data and AI system.
• Deeply analyze user scenarios resulting in optimized software system solution.
• Learn and adopt new technologies (parallel, distributed systems, large-scale data analytics system, etc.), research, survey, and present industry trends to the team.
• Generate innovative ideas and new patent applications.

About the ideal candidate

• Experience leading teams and products to generate business impact and customer success stories.
• Able to lead and mentor team on design/technical skills including data structures, multi-threading, concurrency, performance optimizations, etc.
• 10+ years experience in the implementation of one or more of the following: AI end to end data processing, scenarios and system optimizations, core database internals (Ex: query optimization, runtime, scheduling, storage engine, transaction processing, etc.), large scale data processing (Ex: Flink, Spark, etc.), scalable key-value store (Ex: RocksDB, LevelDB, Redis, etc.), and serverless platform infrastructures.
• Strong problem solving and ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications; MS or PhD is an asset.