Researcher on Heterogeneous Parallel Programming Interfaces
Huawei Technologies, Switzerland
Job Description
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through our constant dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established leading end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries serving more than one third of the world’s population.
With 20+ sites across Europe and 1500 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European Ramp;D facilities. Huawei’s ERI includes the new Zurich Research Center (ZRC), located in Zurich, Switzerland. A major element of ZRC is a new research laboratory focused on fundamental research in the area of computing systems (new hardware, new software, new algorithms).
The research work of the lab will be carried out not only by Huawei’s internal research staff but also by our academic research partners in universities across Europe. The lab will provide an open research environment where academics will be encouraged to visit and work on fundamental long-term research alongside Huawei staff in an environment that, like the best universities and research institutes, is open and conducive to such scientific work.
For this new ZRC Laboratory, we are seeking candidates for a new two-year position to:
- Conduct research on new directions in scalable heterogeneous parallel computing
- Work with internal research colleagues and academic research partners to achieve new breakthroughs in research and innovation
- Produce and present research papers at internationally leading conferences and events
Requirements
Candidates should have a suitable educational background in computer science or a related area, and have research interests in one or more of the following areas:
- Parallel Programming Models and Software Tools
- Distributed Memory Architectures and HPC System Software
- Implementation and Optimization of MPI and Other Platforms
- Remote Memory Access, Function Calls and Procedure Calls (RMA, RFC, RPC)
- Programming Accelerators (GPU, AI)
- Parallel Networks, Routing and Protocols
- Heterogeneous Architectures: Cloud, Datacenter, Supercomputer
Benefits
If you are enthusiastic about working on leading-edge research with a multicultural team of leading European researchers, feel free to contact us. Driving new research and innovation to achieve breakthroughs in future computing systems is our main mission. Join us!