Posted 45 months ago
Distinguished Researcher - Computer Network and Protocol
@ Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Markham, Ontario
Overview
Huawei Technologies Canada is hiring a Distinguished Researcher to lead its Computer Network and Protocol research team in Canada. The role drives research into AI networking, cloud and data-center network protocols, and delivers technologies for Huawei's global AI infrastructure. The posting asks for 10+ years of research or engineering experience and 3+ years of leading research teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead research team on AI networking and protocols
- Develop and deploy networking technologies for cloud and data centers
- Define technical roadmap aligned with business strategy
- Maintain communication with academia and industry
Requirements summary:
- 10+ years research or technical innovation experience
- 3+ years leading research teams
- Expertise in RDMA and datacenter networking
- Experience in distributed systems and software architecture
- Demonstrated influence in networking technologies
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- Employer posting date
- 2023-02-14
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Research & science |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Management experience | 3+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Company size | 10001+ |
| Headquarters | Shenzhen, Guangdong |
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Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Distinguished Researcher.
About the team:
Huawei Computer Network and Protocol Laboratory is under the management of Kun Tan (https://sora-city.github.io/). We have a research team in Canada responsible for technical innovation to explore state-of-the-art networking technologies, focusing on AI networking, including but not limited to AI infrastructure optimization, distributed parallelization, collective communication scheduling, task placement, network protocol stack optimization, like RDMA, traffic engineering, congestion control, and resource allocation for cloud networks.
About the job:
Lead our research team to explore, develop and eventually deploy state-of-the-art networking technologies and protocols for Huawei's global AI infrastructure, cloud and data-center networks, delivering innovations and performance to forge product competitiveness.
Explore new opportunities with understanding of the company/product line strategies and industry development trends and identification of business problems and core challenges, orchestrating research and technologies across the research and business scene into a single, cohesive technical road-map.
Build up and maintain effective communication with professionals in both academia and industry and ensure Huawei’s value is being delivered.
About the ideal candidate:
10+ years of professional experience in research, or engineering and technical innovation.
3+ years of team leading of research or/and technical innovation.
Expertise in AI infrastructure, HPC or datacenter networking technologies, including but not limited to; RDMA, network protocol stack optimization, collective communication scheduling, traffic engineering/routing, congestion control, topology design and resource allocation.
Experience in networking, data network architectures, software architecture, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated strong influence on the networking technologies, in academia or industry context.
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