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 an experienced real-time control software architect to lead the research and development of real-time software to control autonomous systems. A strong candidate should have a passion for new control technology and have an exceptionally strong system software background. You'll bring top-notch control software expertise and contribute to safety critical systems design immediately. You'll be working with system architects, software architects and algorithm experts in developing real-time control systems and applications. This is an opportunity to solve the core autonomy challenges and make foundational impact on a critical part of autonomous driving technology.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategic vision and execution roadmap of the real-time control software architecture;
• Review and create requirements documentation for real time control systems;
• Design and implement control applications for autonomous systems;
• Develop complex real time control system modelling and software simulation;
• Contribute to technical direction for autonomy software architecture, including platform, middleware, services, and backend;
• Lead the proof-of-concept development to evaluate the architectural designs in terms of safety, functionality, performance, security, and dependability;
• Constantly strive to look for future innovations and product improvements;
• Follow industry trends and serve as a visible technology thought leader in the industry.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related technology degree;
• 5+ experience in real-time control systems and control theory;
• Experience with motion control applications;
• Strong meaningful individual contributor experience in real-time programming and system level thinking;
• Solid C/C++ programming in a real time environment;
• Experience in driving technical strategy and vision for engineering teams and organizations;
• Self-motivated and enjoy exploring "undefined" territory, and solving hard problems, and building systems from the lowest level if needed;
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with RT-Preempt and other RT Linux extensions;
• Experience with Model Based System Engineering based on SysML or other DSLs;
• Experience with Linux kernel;
• Distributed systems and scalable system design knowledge.

Culture Fit:

• Mission alignment: If you want to be part of a team to accomplish this great mission, we will provide you the best possible platform to do that;
• Self-directed: We work best with people that are driven, motivated, and aspire to greatness;
• Hungry to learn: We are eager to see you learn new skills and grow;
• Team orientation: We work in small, fast-moving teams. We watch out for each other and go after big goals together as a team.

Location:

• Waterloo
• Toronto

Additional Information

Working with us provides you the opportunities to network with the world leading professionals, to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical skills, and most importantly, to experience the cutting-edge technology before everyone else.

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