Software Engineer - AI System & Infrastructure

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is looking for an Engineer to join their Intelligent Cloud Infrastructure Lab. The role involves innovating technologies for cloud infrastructure, addressing scalability and performance issues, and collaborating with teams to enhance system design. Ideal candidates have a Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, experience in distributed systems, and strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Master/PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Experience in building large scale and high-performance distributed systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand AI System and Infrastructure technology landscape and identify scalability/performance issues.
• Initiate and charter innovation projects to build or re-architect AI infrastructure platforms.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver projects that improve system scalability and performance.

Skills

Distributed system design

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration

Education

Master/PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Nvidia TensorRT

Triton servers

Kubernetes

Pytorch framework

Job description

Huawei Canadahas an immediate permanent opening foran Engineer.

About the team:

The Intelligent Cloud Infrastructure Lab aims to innovate technologies, algorithms, systems, and platforms for next-generation cloud infrastructure. The lab addresses scalability, performance, and resource utilization challenges in existing cloud services while preparing for future challenges with appropriate technologies and architectures. Additionally, the lab aims to understand industry dynamics and technology trends to create a robust ecosystem.

About the job:

• Understand AI System and Infrastructure technology landscape, and identify scalability/performance issues or challenges of current LLM/multi-modal LLM systems

• Initiate and charter innovation projects to build or re-architect AI infrastructure platform, and plan milestones accordingly

• Provide/contribute a scalable and high-performance architecture design or re-design for the infrastructure system that is optimized for AI training and inferencing, which includes but not limited to cluster management and scheduling, LLM model deployment, elastic LLM as well as AI container cold/warm start-up optimization, and so on.

• Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver the project or project features that improve our overall system scalability and performance.

The base salary for this position ranges from $110,000 to $210,000 depending on education, experience and demonstrated expertise

About the ideal candidate:

• Master/PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

• Experience in building large scale and high-performance distributed system

• Experience in Nvidia TensorRT and/or Triton servers. Experience in container virtualization technologies

• Knowledge & experience in distributed system design & development, including serverless technologies

• Work experience in one or more of the following technologies: vLLM, Ray, SGLang, Kubernetes, TensorRT-LLM, Pytorch framework, Cuda libraries, GPU technologies

• Work experience in one or more of the following programming languages: C/C++, Go, Java, Rust, python, C#.

• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with multiple teams and build strong partnerships effectively.

• Demonstrated success working on software engineering problems that span multiple products