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.



We are looking for talented, experienced, and motivated open source committers in the following five domains to join Computing Product Line.

• Big Data Domain
• Cloud Computing Domain
• Cloud Native Domain
• Database Domain
• System Software Domain

As a committer, you will work closely to the open source community, take the responsibility of the design& development & maintenance for related software in ARM ecosystem, and delivery innovative features to community. You will also be leading the communication to both academic and industrial communities, to promote our research work and Huawei's computing Ecosystem. This Committer role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge in one of above domain, will be responsible for defining the next generation of software platforms to support Huawei computing vision.

About Computing Product Line, we are committed to working with our partners to develop Kunpeng-based computing (general-purpose computing) and Ascend-based computing (AI computing) to seize the strategic opportunities of the new era. Diversified computing power (general-purpose computing + heterogeneous computing) will facilitate collaborative innovation across the full stack, from hardware and basic software to application enablement, catapulting governments and enterprises into an intelligent world. Our mission is to make the cutting-edge deep learning models achieve high accuracy and fast performance with Huawei's own AI strategy and full-stack portfolio, including a series of AI chips, cloud services, and products.

Note: full-time employee or part time consultant are both acceptable.

Responsibilities:

• Enable open-source projects in the corresponding domain to support ARM, and even better than x86.
• Work in open source communities related to at least one of the above 5 domains, convert user requirements into open source features, design documents, code, and user instructions, and contribute them into the upstream.
• Promote the most common adopted open source software to support and optimize the aarch64 architecture, including architecture design, performance optimization, and technological innovation.
• Integrate the most common adopted open source community technology systems with ARM software and hardware systems. Design, develop, and maintain open source software related to the ARM ecosystem in the open source community.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or related major, proficient in mainstream development languages such as Java, C, C++, and Python.

2. Have an in-depth understanding of domain specific technologies, being an active developer in open source communities, and committer in related projects, included but not limited to one of below:

- Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and Clickhouse.

- OpenStack, Libvirt, OpenvSwitch, and KVM/QEMU.

- Kuberentes, Docker, and Container.

- MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.

- Linux Kernel?Glibc?Redis?MongoDB?Kafka?RabbitMQ?Ceph?Ubuntu and CentOS.

3. Excellent English communication skills, able to complete daily English communication, text communication and expression developed in the open source community all over the world.

Additional Information

We appreciate all applicants' interest to our position, but as to the high volume of applications, only those selected candidates will be contacted. Thank you!