Distinguished Architect - Data and AI

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Distinguished Architect.

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:

• Understand competitive landscape for data processing and serverless infrastructure in cloud. 

• Architect and develop framework/engine for the next-generation data and AI system. 

• Deeply analyze user scenarios resulting in optimized software system solution. 

• Learn and adopt new technologies (parallel, distributed systems, large-scale data analytics system, etc.), research, survey, and present industry trends to the team. 

• Generate innovative ideas and new patent applications.

Requirements

About the ideal candidate:

• Experience leading teams and products to generate business impact and customer success stories. 

• Able to lead and mentor team on design/technical skills including data structures, multi-threading, concurrency, performance optimizations, etc. 

• 10+ years experience in the implementation of one or more of the following:  AI end to end data processing, scenarios and system optimizations, core database internals (Ex: query optimization, runtime, scheduling, storage engine, transaction processing, etc.), large scale data processing (Ex: Flink, Spark, etc.), scalable key-value store (Ex: RocksDB, LevelDB, Redis, etc.), and serverless platform infrastructures. 

• Strong problem solving and ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications; MS or PhD is an asset.