Principal Architect – Hardware Efficient AI Foundation Model Training

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Principal Architect. About the team: The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab aims to create a leading global data analytics platform organized into three specialized teams using innovative programming technologies. This team focuses on full-stack innovations, including software-hardware co-design and optimizing data efficiency at both the storage and runtime layers. This team also develops next-generation GPU architecture for gaming, cloud rendering, VR/AR, and Metaverse applications. One of the goals of this lab are to enhance algorithm performance and training efficiency across industries, fostering long-term competitiveness. About the job: - Collaborate with internal and external organizations to lead the design of foundational model architecture for LLM/Code/Multimodal subfields by breakthroughs in post-training and continual training. Develop a foundational model with state-of-the-art performance and hardware efficiency, and establish industry impact. - Propose the technical requirements for large-scale distributed training and inference infrastructures such as parallelization and operator fusion, analyze the computational characteristics of typical architectures, and ensure the accuracy and advancement of AI hardware & infrastructure evolution.