Hewlett Packard Labs - Research Scientist

Job description

Hewlett Packard Labs - Research Scientist

  

Job Description:

   

Recent technology advances in high-density, byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) and low-latency memory-semantic interconnects have enabled building large-scale systems with a large disaggregated fabric-attached memory pool shared across decentralized compute nodes. At Hewlett Packard Labs, our research team is inventing and developing the technologies that will enable this memory-driven computing approach, and enable the enterprise data center of the future. The Hewlett Packard Labs research team is unique in the world, in that it focuses on all levels of the stack from core technologies to applications, and many layers in between. We offer the opportunity to do cutting edge research and see it become real.

Your primary focus initially will be on programming models and runtime systems software for resilient applications using persistent fabric-attached memory. Specific activities will include:

·  Designing and implementing runtime systems software to support resource allocation and management, scheduling, fault tolerance, coordination and other system services in a memory-driven computing environment.
·  Designing and implementing APIs that enable programming with fabric-attached memory.
·  Designing and implementing interfaces for developing applications that are resilient to compute failures without requiring explicit checkpoints.
·  Evaluating the proposed API and runtime implementations with benchmarks and challenge applications that showcase their functionality and performance.
·  Participating in the design and implementation of systems that are best suited for certain customer-driven requirements.
·  Interacting with other teams who are developing adjacent hardware, firmware, software, mechanical, and thermal features that target these future data center systems.

We are looking for candidates with a PhD (or equivalent) in computer science or engineering, who are interested in a researcher and/or advanced development position. We expect candidates to have demonstrated the ability to frame, execute, and communicate research, for example, via papers published in top-tier conferences or journals, as well as build substantial artifacts that validate their research.

We value the ability to work independently and in teams, excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong computer science and engineering background, and the desire to learn new techniques to solve problems. Excellent software development skills for complex software systems are a significant plus.

Job Responsibilities

·  Participates as a member of a research team focused on the design, implementation and analysis of application programming APIs and runtime systems software for future data center system architectures to support the creation of new products, open source software and intellectual property.
·  Help in the creation of research plans, investigative procedures, and collection and analysis guidelines for the target investigation.  Collaborate with internal and external partners to perform experiments and validations in accordance with the overall research plan.
·  Communicate results and conclusions to team members for review and feedback.
·  Prepare literature and presentations for peer review, publication, and delivery at industry and scientific events and conferences.
·  Create patent applications and supporting documentation.
·  Drive innovation and integration of new technologies and practices into research and product development organizations, as well as the open source community.
·  Provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced staff members.

Education and Experience

·  PhD degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering.
·  A minimum 5-8 years of proven academic or industrial research experience involving the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software and/or programming models. 
·  Proven capability to define and execute a research agenda.  
·  Proven capability to effectively work in a team based environment.

Knowledge and Skills

·  A very high level of coding and debugging skills in both conventional languages such as C++ or Java, as well as scripting languages such as Python or Perl.  Fluency in C++ is a plus.
·  Demonstrated ability to design, develop and debug large complex software systems.
·  Strong background in performance analysis and tuning.
·  Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
·  Familiarity with concurrency and software design for large scale multiprocessor NUMA systems is a plus.
·  Familiarity and experience with complex memory models is a plus.
·  Demonstrated ability to work constructively in an open source community is a plus.
·  Broad familiarity with processor and memory system hardware architecture is a plus. 
·  Ability to understand the impact of software architectural design decisions on system performance, fault tolerance and usability is a plus.
·  Ability to effectively communicate research plans, proposals, and results, and negotiate options at management levels is a plus.

Job:
Engineering

Job Level:
Specialist

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

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