As a Staff SW Development Engineer at Nokia, you will work in a cross-functional, agile team developing embedded Optical Line System software products. Your work would involve extensive discussions with System Engineering, FW and SW development teams, Validation teams, including everything from product concept to finished product. The position would also involve taking full responsibility that a new feature is delivered on time with the right quality using state-of-the-art continuous integration pipelines..
Education Necessary:
Candidates must have a Bachelors/Masters degree or higher in CS, Opto-Electronics, ECE or equivalent branch of engineering, and typically having 8-12 years of relevant experience and recognized as experts in the domain.
We offer:
A high paced development of new products.
Tight cooperation with other disciplines and an agile organization
Short product development cycles, Real results of your work, you will see how it affects our products and sales.
Social and wellness activities and clubs
A friendly and helpful atmosphere
Highly competent and motivated colleagues
Responsibilities
Works effectively in a mixed environment and uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Has in-depth business knowledge and uses understanding of how relevant areas integrate to achieve objectives.
• Uses advanced analytical skills to solve complex problems or problems that do not have routine solutions and takes a new perspective.
• Acts as a professional advisor and mentor for staff / workteam / taskforces.
• May lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements or small teams, and allocation of work.
• Analyses, designs, develops and tests products / services / improvements / bug resolutions for integrated hardware / software systems as per customers' requirements.
• Resolves customer trouble tickets. Diagnoses complex problems / issues (EG hardware, software, combination) and provides resolution or recommend corrective actions.
• Retains technical and design knowledge for assigned products and technologies and provides training to the lower support teams (Tier 2 and Tier 3).
• Applies and maintains quality standards. Participates in process and tools evolutions and improvements.
Must Have:
Experience 8+ years within SW development.
E2E Optical (Layer 0) boards/cards like ROADM, AMPLIFIER, RAMAN, OTDR, Dynamic Gain Equalizer (DGE) bring up activity.
Working experience in Optical Control Loops and architecture involving ROADM, Amplifiers, RAMAN, Optical Channel Monitor, VOAs
Excellent design and analytical skills, including experience with software modeling, reuse, performance, testability, and extensibility.
Excellent C/C++/Python and object-oriented programming skills in multi-threaded environments.
Experience working with HW/FW teams and collaborating on the HW/FW specifications.
Highly motivated, Flexible, Innovative, self-driven and willing to take own initiatives for betterment of the product/features.
Structured and thorough with analytical and troubleshooting skills
Agile way of working.
Good to Have:
Ability to use AI DLC models in conjunction with Cursor, Copilot AI etc
Experience in using dockers in development/ simulation environment.
Experience in using Modern Automated tools, viz. Codescene, GTEST.
Domain Knowledge on Optical Protection and Restoration will be an added plus.
Some of our benefits in India:
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements to support work–life balance
- Health and well-being support – medical insurance for you and your family, health check-ups, life and accident insurance, well-being programs, and employee resource groups
- A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave based on eligibility
- Personal Support Service 24/7 – a confidential support channel open to all Nokia employees and their families in challenging situations
- Career growth & mobility – technical career paths, job rotations, international assignments, and relocation support
- Continuous learning – technical certifications, mentoring programs, coaching, and digital learning platforms
- Opportunities to innovate and contribute through Nokia’s research and development environment
- Recognition programs that celebrate outstanding contributions
- Workplace support – ergonomic working support and mobile device programs based on eligibility
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