Sr Performance Optimization and Simulation Engineer

Huawei R&D UK; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

About Huawei Research and Development UK Limited

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all four corners of the earth to provide superior computing power where you need it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they're at home, in the office, or on the go.

This spirit of innovation has led Huawei to work in close partnership with leading academic institutions in the UK to develop and refine the latest technologies. With a shared commitment to innovation and progress, both parties have worked together to achieve common goals and establish a strong partnership. The partnership between UK and Huawei helps to develop the technologies of the future that will transform the way we all communicate, work, and live.

For the past 30 years, we have maintained an unwavering focus, rejecting shortcuts and easy opportunities that don't align with our core business. With a practical approach to everything we do, we concentrate our efforts and invest patiently to drive technological breakthroughs.

This strategic focus is a reflection of our core values:

• staying customer-centric,
• inspiring dedication,
• persevering,
• growing by reflection

Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Overview

Huawei's vision is a fully connected, intelligent world. To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, and Ipswich. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey and drive your career forward.

Your Role

We are seeking a highly motivated performance engineer to join our workload modelling and simulation team to work on improving and optimization of performance for current and future Huawei's server and datacentre products. As a performance optimization and simulation engineer, you will work on investigating performance bottlenecks of applications like databases, distributed storages, engines for large-scale data analytics, as well as AI-specific applications to improve their overall performance by proposing new custom instructions or CPU instruction set extensions and proving possible performance improvement through simulation.

Main Responsibilities

• Performance analysis of applications of interest to propose new instructions and ISA extensions.
• Reworking and optimization of critical parts of applications to support new ISA.
• Implementation of proposed new instructions or uArch tweaks in performance simulator for evaluation of possible performance benefits.

Requirement

• Deep understanding of modern CPU architectures.
• Knowledge and experience of using the latest Aarch64 or X86 instruction sets.
• Background in performance analysis, profiling, and workload characterization.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.

Considered as a plus

• Experience in developing and using performance simulators like GEM5 (O3 model), Sniper, or others is a big plus.
• Experience in developing and using dynamic binary instrumentation infrastructures like QEMU or DynamoRIO or x86 PIN is a plus.
• Knowledge of NPU/GPU architecture.
• Experience in simulator development for NPU/GPU.

What we offer

• 33 days annual leave entitlement per year (including UK public holidays).
• Group Personal Pension.
• Life insurance.
• Private medical insurance.
• Medical expense claim scheme.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Company sports club and social events.
• Additional time off for learning and development.

Department: Computing Product Line

Locations: Huawei Cambridge Research Center