CPU Architecture Internship

About Huawei Research and Development UK Limited

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. 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.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all four corners of the earth to provide superior computing power where you need it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they’re at home, in the office, or on the go.

This spirit of innovation has led Huawei to work in close partnership with leading academic institutions in the UK to develop and refine the latest technologies. The company’s commitment to investment in R&D in the UK, through university partnerships or bespoke facilities such as the photonics centre in Ipswich, will keep the country at the forefront of global digital innovation. And through this commitment, the UK will play an increasingly significant role in helping Huawei to develop the technologies of the future that will transform the way we all communicate, work and live.

For the past 30 years we have maintained an unwavering focus, rejecting shortcuts and easy opportunities that don't align with our core business. With a practical approach to everything we do, we concentrate our efforts and invest patiently to drive technological breakthroughs.

This strategic focus is a reflection of our core values:

• staying customer-centric,
• inspiring dedication,
• persevering,
• Growing by reflection.

Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Overview

Huawei’s vision is a fully connected, intelligent world.

To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centres around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centres in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Ipswich and Bristol. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new services. We have expanded our collaborations with academic researchers; researched new network architectures, integration of communications and key enabling technologies; and developed the fundamental theories of these technologies. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey and drive your career forward.

Job Summary

Huawei is looking at for interns with experience and knowledge in computer architecture research. We wish to recruit students who are passionate on the computer architecture and CPU design, with experiences on modelling.

Job Purpose:

This is a research-oriented internship focusing on various aspects of CPU architecture and micro-Architecture. Responsibilities will include but not limited to the list of items below.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analysis, evaluate and research the state-of-the-art methods for memory (micro-)architecture designs, e.g. memory virtualization, replacement policies and cache access etc, to improve system performance and reduce power consumption.
• Identifying the performance bottlenecks of existing methods and proposing improvements or new methodologies.
• Developing high-level simulations of novel (micro-)architectural designs for further design space exploration.
• Running simulation-based experiments to examine and evaluate new ideas.
• Gathering, analyzing and presenting experimental results.
• Contributing to scientific literature under the guidance.

Required:

• You are currently enrolled in a Master‘s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Engineering or any related fields at universities.
• Strong mathematical/algorithmic problem-solving and OOP software development skills (C/C++, Python, etc.).
• Good understanding of the fundamentals of general purpose CPU micro-architecture, such as pipelining, out-of-order execution, and caches.
• Good understanding of CPU Instruction Set Architecture and assembly language, e.g. Arm, RISC-V, MIPS, X86.
• Good understanding of the fundamentals of general purpose Memory Subsystem and Operating System for Virtual Memory Systems

Desired:

• Experience in writing CPU functional/performance simulators, e.g. Qemu, Gem5 etc.
• Experience in writing compiler for architecture enablement and optimization.
• Experience in performance analysis and tuning on modern CPUs.

What we offer

• Assign with an industry expert as Mentor
• Fixed term employment contract up to two years
• Flexible working
• 33 days annual leave entitlement per year (including UK public holidays)
• Group Personal Pension
• Corporate retail discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life insurance
• Corporate social events