Research Intern: AI Systems & Hardware Architecture

Huawei; Dübendorf; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Technologies Switzerland AG is seeking a highly skilled candidate to advance server architecture research, analyzing modern workloads, reading top-tier papers, and prototyping acceleration strategies across software and hardware interfaces.

Join a collaborative team exploring AI accelerators, compiler backends, and hardware‑software co‑design, with opportunities to publish patents and contribute to cutting‑edge computing systems.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in Masters/PhD program or completed Masters in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Knowledge about server workloads in the modern agentic era.
• Proficient in using agentic workflows with AI tools.
• Proficient in C/C++, LLVM/MLIR.
• Knowledge about server CPU and SoC architecture. Experience with computer architecture simulators (gem5-accel, Aladdin, Zsim, Ramulator2, Booksim2, Cacti).
• Knowledge about intermediate representations, compiler, code generation and backends (lli, mlir-opt).
• Research acumen in analysing bottlenecks, brainstorming solutions, and evaluating ideas with simulators.
• Experience in reading, analyzing, critiquing, and implementing research papers.
• Experience with trace collection and profiling tools.

Responsibilities

• Understand modern server workloads in the agentic era: Data Analytics, Vector Databases, Graph Neural Networks, Knowledge Graphs, Tokenizer, Embedding Lookups, etc.
• Read and analyze research papers from architecture and systems conferences (ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS, VLDB, etc.).
• Collect traces by running complex server benchmark suites, profile and analyze bottlenecks, propose hardware acceleration opportunities and solutions. Write micro‑benchmarks to test hypothesis.
• Model hardware‑software interface for accelerator integration mechanisms.
• Investigate cross domain hardware integration and usage scenarios and solutions (software --> compiler --> ISA).
• Perform experiments via emulation and simulation setups, gather insights, write/publish patent and research papers.

Skills

C/C++

LLVM/MLIR

Server CPU/SoC architecture

Research & analysis

Trace collection & profiling

Education

Masters or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

gem5-accel

Aladdin

Zsim

Ramulator2

Booksim2

Cacti

lli

mlir-opt

LLVM/MLIR

Job description

Huawei Technologies Switzerland AG is seeking a highly skilled candidate to advance server architecture research, analyzing modern workloads, reading top-tier papers, and prototyping acceleration strategies across software and hardware interfaces.

Join a collaborative team exploring AI accelerators, compiler backends, and hardware‑software co‑design, with opportunities to publish patents and contribute to cutting‑edge computing systems.