Hewlett Packard Labs

Hewlett Packard Labs - Architecture & System Design Research Scientist

This role has been designated as ‘Edge’, which means you will primarily work outside of an HPE office.

The Large-Scale Integrated Photonics (LSIP) Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs has an immediate opening for a qualified research scientist with expertise in architecture and system design emerging analog computing platforms such as ReRAM-based in-memory computing, (silicon) photonics or quantum/quantum-inspired computing. This role will work closely with LSIP Lab colleagues in Milpitas, California, as well as with partners in Santa Barbara, Germany and Canada. As the central (international) research organization for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hewlett Packard Labs' purpose is to deliver breakthrough technologies and technology advancements that provide a competitive advantage for the company, by investing in fundamental science and technology in areas of interest to HPE and getting the resulting technologies ready for adoption into new and existing markets.

**Role and Responsibilities**:
As the **Architecture & System Design Research Scientist**, you will be responsible for development of (micro-)architectures and overall system design, algorithm/hardware co-design and the corresponding hardware optimization in emerging analog computing platforms based on integrated, fiber-based or free-space photonics, memristive in-memory computing or similar.

While most of our neuromorphic and quantum-inspired hardware research is focused on classical solutions, we would also like to explore the computational and energy-efficiency benefits of working at the quantum limit for, e.g., our photonics platforms.

Furthermore, the role will work from a top-down perspective and identify key workloads for such hardware, identify computationally burdensome subroutines, map this to appropriate hardware accelerators and perform cross-platform benchmarking on prototype hardware, or emulators of such hardware.

This role will collaborate heavily with an international multi-disciplinary team of machine learning experts, software developers, photonic/(analog/mixed-signal) electronic device and circuit designers, and computer scientists.

In addition to technical contributions, this role is expected to identify promising research opportunities aligned with HPE’s long term business goals, lead grant proposal writing efforts by partnering with internal and external stakeholders, targeting research projects in the field of neuromorphic, quantum-inspired or quantum computing.

In our team, all the software related to design, measurement and data analysis is written in Python, hence, a strong background with Python is critical.

**Qualifications and Education Requirements**:

- PhD degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or equivalent.
- 3-5 year academic or industrial post-doc or equivalent R&D experience.
- Stellar publication record in top peer-reviewed journals in your field is a must.
- Team player, self-motivated and independent worker.
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills
- Fluent English language

**Preferred Skills**:

- Expert in recent machine learning techniques, architecture, and micro-architecture design.
- Expert in Python coding; specifically pytorch and tensorflow expertise is relevant.
- Experience with programming GPUs and FPGAs is relevant.
- Experience with cycle-accurate hardware simulators such as SST is a plus.
- Experience in research proposal writing and/or research project management.

**We offer**:

- A competitive salary and extensive social benefits
- Diverse and dynamic work environment
- Work-life balance and support for career development
- An amazing life inside the element Want to know more about it?

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About HPE:
HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to diversity and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global diverse team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

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**Job**:
Engineering
**Job Level**:
Specialist

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