Distinguished Engineer - Software IDE & AI Assisted Development

huaweicanada; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Distinguished Software IDE Engineer. You will join the Software IDE Innovation Lab to explore AI-native IDE features and enterprise tooling, aimed at making software development faster, smarter, and more productive.

In this role you will lead IDE kernel and plug-in design, work with language and compiler teams, and deliver impactful components such as code editor features, syntax highlighting, debuggers, and code search to advance developer

Qualifications

• Be familiar with the features of mainstream IDE products and lead in designing at least one IDE product.
• Have at least five years of experience in the IDE kernel and IDE plug-in fields and be familiar with source code of one or more IDE projects.
• Deep understanding of software engineering, program analysis, testing and debugging; papers or patents in related fields are assets.

Responsibilities

• Explore breakthroughs in IDE technologies to enhance developer productivity.
• Prototype verification for developers in open scenarios and scale the technologies.
• Collaborate with programming languages and compiler teams to form closed-loop IDE solutions.

Skills

IDE kernel

IDE plug-ins

Code editor

Syntax highlighting

Debugger

Code search

Visual programming

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Distinguished Software IDE Engineer.

About the team:

Software IDE innovation Lab is building an AI Native IDE for efficient work, we have our own IDE and a series of enterprise-level intelligent tools based on AI/ML/LLMs/NLP for software development and maintenance, such as AI software engineer, a project-level code generation tool, a code migration and translation tool, a code review and vulnerability detection tool, etc. At the same time, we pay attention to the data collection/cleansing/synthesis, model design, and model training involved in the construction process of large code models.

About the job:

• Facing new business scenarios, new development models, and new programming languages in the future, continuously explore and make breakthroughs in innovative software IDE technologies based on developer experience and productivity, make software development simpler, more efficient, and smarter, and support the development of an industry developer ecosystem and the company's business success.

• Focus on innovative software IDE technologies and prototype verification for developers in open scenarios, and gradually implement the technologies, greatly improving developer programming experience and software development efficiency.

• Collaborate with programming languages and compiler technologies to form a closed-loop solution for developers by combining language and compiler capabilities with IDE innovation and fast iterative development.

About the ideal candidate:

• Be familiar with the features of mainstream IDE products, take the lead in designing at least one commercial IDE product, and have some influence in the industry.

• Have at least five years of experience in the IDE kernel and IDE plug-in fields. Be familiar with the source code of one or more mainstream IDE projects. Take the lead in designing and developing one or more IDE plug-ins. Be proficient in IDE technologies such as code editor, syntax highlighting, debugger, code search, and visual programming.

• Have a deep understanding of software engineering, program analysis, testing and debugging, and have papers or patents in related fields is an asset.