Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Consultant.
About the team:
The Technology Planning and Cooperation Department promotes strategic innovation across all of Huawei Canada. Working with fellow experts, the focus is researching new and upcoming areas of technology as well as strategic planning to help achieve long term vision of Huawei. This department offers a unique opportunity to leverage both technical and business skills.
About the job:
Proactively track the technological development trends in cutting-edge AI, Future Computing, DCN, Computing Hardware and Operating System. Provide insight reports on innovation trends, propose ideas and suggestions.
Track and analyze key achievements from top universities and papers published at top conferences and journals. Communicate and discuss with technical experts, and capture state of the art technologies and ideas.
Participate in academic and industrial conferences, closely track new technology trends, and keep an eye on early discovery of disruptive technologies.
Communicate with collaborating teams to promote innovations with substantive potential.
Organize seminars and workshops in related fields and maintain regular technical exchanges with academic and business partners.
About the ideal candidate:
Education background in Computer Science or related disciplines. Ph.D. degree is an asset.
Experience in research and development, innovation incubation in AI, Future Computing, DCN, Computing Hardware and Operating System related fields.
Keen insight and analytical ability.
Have a general vision or professional connections to resources in the areas described above in North American, including research institutes, universities, and companies is an asset.
Understand the operations of academic organizations and possess a working background in relevant academic organizations. A position within an academic organization is an asset.
Skills Required
- Education background in Computer Science or related disciplines
- Experience in research and development in AI, Future Computing, DCN, Computing Hardware, and Operating Systems
- Ph.D. degree in relevant field
- Insight and analytical ability
- Professional connections in North American academic and industry organizations
What We Do
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 approximately 197,000 employees and we operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. In Canada, Huawei conducts innovative and leading edge research in 5G technologies, along with advanced development of emerging cloud, device and network technologies & services. While our renowned Canada Research Centre in the thriving technology landscape of Ottawa, Ontario continues to grow rapidly in size and strategic product initiatives, additional presence has also been established across Canada with R&D facilities in Vancouver, Edmonton, Waterloo, Markham, Montreal, and a R&D office in Quebec City.
