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 R&D facilities. Huawei’s ERI includes the Zurich Research Center (ZRC), located in Zurich, Switzerland.

A major element of ZRC is a rapidly growing 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 provides an open research environment where academics will be encouraged to visit and work on fundamental long-term research alongside with Huawei staff across the globe in an environment that, like the best universities and research institutes, is open and conducive to such world-leading scientific work.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize AI operator kernels including matrix multiplication, self-attention, linear attention, recurrent models
• Use profiling tools to analyze micro-architecture bottlenecks
• Integrate optimized operators into end-to-end LLM training and inference systems

Requirements:

• PhD or Master in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • Proficient in high-performance computing, performance optimization, performance engineering
• Creativity and excellent communication ability in English are key. Willingness to learn new concepts and technologies is also crucial.

What we offer

At the Zurich Research Center, the successful candidate becomes part of a multicultural team of leading European researchers with expertise spanning from computer microarchitecture to mathematics. We believe such breadth is crucial to succeed in our mission to drive new fundamental research and achieve new innovate breakthroughs in future computing systems. If this speaks to you, please be sure to apply!