General

Senior Research Scientist - PhD - Smart Networks - (12 Month Contract)

Together we can bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
 

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. We have more than 194,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Huawei’s goal is to foster a fertile business environment that spans the entire globe, while remaining close to our ecosystem partners. Huawei itself focuses on ICT infrastructure and smart devices, and through open innovation, we will help build a welcoming and robust industry for all. Our ecosystem will be digital, intelligent, and localized, and it will provide a healthy space for our partners’ content and applications to develop. Together, we provide customers with a broad range of specialized solutions and services.

We work hard to earn the trust and support of many industry organizations and partners, with whom we joined forces to maintain a fair, just, and open industry environment. International organizations including 3GPP, GSMA, ETSI, IEEE, IETF, the Linux Foundation, Apache, and TMF, have issued public statements in support of inclusivity for all members in public industry activities, including Huawei, insofar as the law permits. Together, we can do more for the industry.

Looking to the future, Huawei’s innovation will transition as we move from an Innovation 1.0 era to an Innovation 2.0 era. In Innovation 1.0, we have focused on innovations in technology, engineering, products, and solutions to address customer needs. In Innovation 2.0, driven by our vision, we will expand our efforts to seek breakthroughs in basic theories and develop new basic technologies.

About the Role

Huawei Ireland Research Centre (IRC) mission is to position Huawei as a recognized technology leader and a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. To achieve this we are building an industry-recognized multi-discipline Research Centre of experts with focus on medium-term to long-term issues. The IRC will work closely with an open innovative ecosystem with Huawei customers to address real-world issues. The IRC will also engage with key European universities to build a basic research capability to support Huawei technical projects.

In this role, we are looking for research engineer to work at our Smart Networks team, which is conducting world-class and cutting edge research to apply advancements in networking to improve application performance, solve the complex challenges in software defined networks, and deliver the best user experience for Huawei customers. Smart Networks team finds real world problems affecting Huawei customers, conducts internal research or collaborate with external professors for joint research, builds proof-of-concept to determine feasibility and measure impact, and transfer research artifacts to Huawei’s engineering teams for general deployment.

Smart Networks team is seeking exceptional candidates with a solid record of conducting research in the fields of networking, multimedia delivery, data center and edge computing. Candidate must be a self-motivated proven collaborator, with strong attention to detail and willingness to learn. The qualified candidates should be able to handle multiple tasks in parallel, while ensuring on time delivery with high quality bar.

Smart Networks team works closely with the Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG), CBG covers smartphones, PC, tablets, wearables, and mobile broadband devices. Currently, CBG is the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Huawei CBG is dedicated to delivering the most significant technologies to consumers and sharing the future outlook with people around the world.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Think out of the box to find breakthrough research topics in Smart Networks domain.
  • Communicate and collaborate with research and engineering teams to conduct research.
  • Execute innovative research projects, publish findings in research papers, write patents for breakthrough technology, and transfer new technology to Huawei engineering groups.
  • Develop solutions for real world problems for millions of users.
  • PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, networking, applied math, or related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience in research domain.
  • Strong publication record in conferences and journals.
  • Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a multi-cultural team.
  • Should have research experience on at least one of following:
    • Overlay networks
    • Data center
    • Media delivery
    • Programmable data plane
    • Edge computing
  • Excellent coding skills (Python).
  • Experience in using open source solutions to solve research and engineering problems.