Job Description

Company Description

About Huawei

With 194,000 employees and operating in more than 170 countries and regions, Huawei is a leading global creator and provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Integrated solutions span across four key domains - telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services. Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

About Huawei Canada

Huawei Canada focuses on fundamental research and development aimed at solving complex technical problems in emerging technologies like 5G, AI, Human Computer Interaction and Autonomous Driving. With ongoing research initiatives with 10 Universities across Canada and strategic collaboration agreements with several Universities, we support Canada's rich research community. In 2020, Huawei Canada ranked among the Top 20 corporate R&D investors in the country with a huge 40% increase in R&D investment year over year. Huawei Canada was established in 2008 and now has a total workforce of 1,200 in our six research centers across Canada.

Why work with Huawei Canada?

You will have the opportunity to work on real world problems that impact people across the globe. Many of our researchers are actively involved in publishing conference and journal papers, inventing patents and solving challenging technical problems. With cutting edge tools, access to highly specialized leaders and researchers, and significant funding, you will be well supported to fulfil your potential and pursue your professional dreams.

• Lead and participate in SSD architecture definition tasks - technology exploration, spec development, considering performance/QoS/power/cost trade-offs.
• Incubate and prototype new SW/HW Co-designed technologies to demonstrate the viability of new SSD system architectures to improve the cloud-native applications performances.
• Drive continuous improvements in SSD products and processes based on industry trends, technology trends, competitive trends, and internal execution.
• Participate in new SSD product architecture discussions with planning and engineering teams to identify competitive yet executable architectures for Huawei Cloud.
• Collaborate with various teams in Huawei Cloud to ensure end-to-end software-hardware solutions.
• Work with Huawei Cloud Service teams to understand their issues, requirements, and business models.

Qualifications

• Proficient in the design, operation and maintenance of cloud, storage, server systems or products, such as the design and development of the underlying hardware platform of the data center cluster system.
• Experience in the application and design of SSDs. Be familiar with the product architecture, key technologies, and technology evolution directions. Have In-depth Experience with SSD controllers and/or SSD firmware architecture.
• Have an SW/HW co-design experience in SSD (big plus).
• Have sufficient knowledge of the flash-based storage industry and experience in 3D TLC/QLC NAND devices.
• Have good knowledge of computer and systems architecture with a thorough understanding of system software (OS, Drivers, Firmware) and its interaction with the hardware platform.
• Have general knowledge of storage media, storage system architecture, and storage software stacks.
• Have general knowledge of applications' characteristics and storage requirements such as databases and big data.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning and deploying new technologies.
• Fluent English is preferred.

Additional Information

We thank all applicants for their interest in career opportunities with Huawei. Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.