Research Leader - Computer Network and Protocol

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.; Markham; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in York Region is seeking a Chief Researcher to lead their research team in developing state-of-the-art networking technologies for AI infrastructure. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience and a PhD in a relevant field. Responsibilities include technical innovation, research strategy, and maintaining industry relationships.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in research or engineering.
• 3+ years of team leading in research or technical innovation.
• Expertise in AI infrastructure and data-center networking technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research team to develop networking technologies for AI infrastructure.
• Identify business challenges and orchestrate research into a technical roadmap.
• Maintain effective communication with industry and academia.

Skills

Research

Team leadership

AI infrastructure

Data-center networking

Technical innovation

Education

PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Telecommunications

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for aChief Researcher.

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:

• Lead our research team to explore, develop and eventually deploy state-of-the-art networking technologies and protocols for Huawei's global AI infrastructure, cloud and data-center networks, delivering innovations and performance to forge product competitiveness.

• Explore new opportunities with understanding of the company/product line strategies and industry development trends and identification of business problems and core challenges, orchestrating research and technologies across the research and business scene into a single, cohesive technical road-map.

• Build up and maintain effective communication with professionals in both academia and industry and ensure Huawei’s value is being delivered.

About the ideal candidate:

• 10+ years of professional experience in research, or engineering and technical innovation.

• 3+ years of team leading of research or/and technical innovation.

• Expertise in AI infrastructure, HPC or data-center networking technologies, including but not limited to; RDMA, network protocol stack optimization, collective communication scheduling, traffic engineering/routing, congestion control, topology design and resource allocation.

• Experience in networking, data network architectures, software architecture, and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated strong influence on the networking technologies, in academia or industry context.

• PhD. In Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Telecommunications