Senior Principal Architect - Window System

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Principal Architect.

About the team:
The web, Windowing and Graphics team is exploring novel architectures to accelerate the rendering of ArkUI and web platform content. Areas of study include customizing GPU drivers for the needs of web rendering, simplifying the Chrome rendering architecture assuming only TBDR GPU targets, concurrent web layout and taking advantage of the vertical integration possibilities afforded by Huawei’s HarmonyOS.

About the job:

• Provide insights as to the OS Graphics software stack and hardware trends, e.g., GUI, display and input techs.

• Identify key technologies and lead the team in researching and implementing PoCs.

• Lead the Canada team to collaborate with the China-based engineering team for production.

About the ideal candidate:

• Good communication and presentation skills.

• Leadership skills to communicate architecture vision and targets and develop consensus with other teams.

• Deep and wide experience in the OS graphics area, especially for GUI, 2D/3D graphics architecture, render pipelines, application frameworks, and GPU acceleration.

• Familiar with graphic APIs like OpenGLES, Vulkan, Metal, Direct2D, etc.

• Familiar with Android, iOS and web graphics stacks with knowledge of components like surfaceflinger, web animations and CoreAnimation.

• Experience in CE (Consumer Electronic) development and industry trends.