Job Description

The gateway software engineering team at Huawei’s Vancouver Research Center is responsible for malware file classification research. Led by the top experts in this industry and mixed with new PhD grads and experienced veterans, the team will be expanding from 8 to 20 within 6 months. By joining our team, you’ll benefit from our expansive technical knowledge and keen drive to innovate. This new team has ample growth opportunity and supportive leaders.

From a technical perspective, our malware file classification Team is involved in research and prototyping of novel solutions aimed at protecting our corporate customers from cyber-threats. We believe in the data-driven approach and machine learning and data science techniques as the foundation of our solutions. We design our systems from the ground up the way they should be and do not depend on legacy code. We embrace bleeding edge-technology if it improves our work or results. Our team is small and agile with academic and industrial experience in data mining, machine learning and operations. Needless to say, your work will have diversity in tasks.

• Research the modern Anti-Virus and IPS technologies.
• Develop and optimize our cross platform Anti-Virus engine, WAF and IPS engine.
• Write unit test to verify functionality.

Qualifications

• Master (preferred) or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, with 5+ years of experience in similar positions.
• Strong experience in C/C++ object oriented large scale application framework experience.
• Experience with Malware analysis, Ant-virus, Machine Learning AV, Reverse engineering, IDA, OllyDbg, WinDbg, URL filter, Anti-spam, Botnet and X86 Assembly language.
• Understanding of x86-64 CPU architecture and memory management.
• Experience with Windows system internals, Linux Kernel Architecture, Linux System Architecture, TCP/IP network stack, Netfilter packet traversal and Socket programming.

Nice to have:

• Experience with X86 virtualization, hypervisor (XEN, KVM and QEMU), WINE, compiler, Flex/Bison, BinPac, LLVM 
• Experience with NGFW, IPS (Intrusion Prevention System), Sandbox, DDOS, WAF, HoneyPot and APT(ATP) 
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).