Huawei Research Center Germany

Senior/Principal AI Systems Engineer

Dresden, DE · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago

Distributed SystemsMachine LearningComputer VisionLLMsSystems EngineeringResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

You will work closely with product teams to translate research breakthroughs into production‑ready capabilities, while growing and mentoring a world‑class research and development team.
Mentor and grow the engineering team - Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship to engineers working on inference, agent logic, distributed systems, and hardware‑aware optimization.
Your areas of expertise Advanced academic background - BSc/Master/PhD in Computer Science or related fields, with strong foundations in systems engineering or machine learning.

Huawei Heisenberg Research Center (Munich) is responsible for advanced technology research, architectural development, design and strategic engineering of our products.
Join us as a Principal AI Systems Engineer (m/f/d) and lead the creation of next‑generation agent systems for the AI PC era.
In this role, you will drive research into intelligent, autonomous agents capable of operating across heterogeneous compute tiers - from on‑device execution to near‑device accelerators and cloud‑scale reasoning.
Build scalable agent runtimes - Own the architecture of runtimes that coordinate multiple models, sensor inputs, memory subsystems, and decision‑making loops across heterogeneous compute tiers.
Drive performance across CPU/GPU/NPU/cloud - Lead optimization efforts for latency, throughput, memory footprint, and energy efficiency across AI PCs, edge devices, and cloud clusters.
Translate research into production agents - Partner with research teams to evaluate new model architectures and convert them into robust agent behaviors that run efficiently across distributed environments.
ML systems engineering - Deep experience building and integrating inference pipelines into production systems.

Model optimization - Experience with quantization, pruning, distillation, and other efficiency‑driven transformations.

Lead multi‑tier intelligence strategy - Define how agents decide where to run each component (LLM, vision, speech, planning, memory) based on latency, cost, privacy, and hardware availability.

We offer healthy meals ranging from traditional Chinese to western delicacies in our famous company canteen.

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