Principal Scientist - Software/Hardware Co-design

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Principal Scientist. 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: - Build an accurate and universal AI performance model based on mainstream AI acceleration technologies to support theoretical analysis. - Track the emerging hardware designs in the industry, conduct in-depth insight and survey analysis, and identify the direction of key cutting-edge technologies. - Cooperate with our AI research team to identify key performance bottlenecks in future AI workloads, and define key algo-hw codesign features of our next-generation chips, for the objectives of low cost, high throughput, great scalability, and stability. - Performance modelling of representative AI workloads with state of the art training & inference algorithms on different hardware specs for quantitative analysis of compute, memory, IO and interconnect. - Lead our team for acceleration algorithm breakthrough in best tradeoff between model quality and compute efficiency. - Track the emerging algorithm-hardware codesign technologies in the industry, conduct in-depth insight and survey analysis, and deeply understand main directions and trends of cutting-edge algorithm-hardware codesign technologies.