As a Senior Principal 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 the PLM, SW architects, 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.
• Interprets critical internal or external business issues and develops innovative solutions that help to sustain competitive advantage.
• Defines processes and standards.
• Uses knowledge on how the job contributes to the corporate goals as well as knowledge of industry and competitive landscape to increase own effectiveness.
• Influences strategic decisions within professional area that affect the performance of the subfunction (EG a subset of a function, typically consisting of several areas with independent budgets).
• Solves highly complex or novel problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment.
• Independently develops concepts to set the professional direction of own organizational unit.
• Acts as a senior subject matter expert, typically at a global or regional level, in many organizational units the most senior internal expert who serves as best practice / quality resource and is an acknowledged authority both within and outside own organizational unit.
• Often leads functional teams or projects with considerable resource requirements, risk, and complexity, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work.
• Manages technical requirements from customers’ needs.
• 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.
Education Necessary: Candidates must have a Bachelors/Masters degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering, Opto-Electronics, Electronics And Communication Engineering or equivalent branch of engineering, and typically having 20+ years of relevant experience and recognized as experts in the domain.
Must Have Skills:
- Experience 20+ 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.
- Ability to use AI DLC models in conjunction with Cursor, Claude, Copilot AI etc
- Experience in using dockers in development/ simulation environment.
- Experience in using Modern Automated tools, viz. Codescene, GTEST.
- Domain Knowledge on Optical Firmware will be an added plus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering, Opto-Electronics, Electronics and Communication Engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
- 20+ years of relevant software development experience.
- Experience with end-to-end Optical Layer 0 boards/cards, including ROADM, amplifier, RAMAN, OTDR, and Dynamic Gain Equalizer bring-up.
- Experience with optical control loops and architectures involving ROADMs, amplifiers, RAMAN, Optical Channel Monitors, and VOAs.
- Excellent software design and analytical skills, including software modeling, reuse, performance, testability, and extensibility.
- Strong C, C++, Python, and object-oriented programming skills in multithreaded environments.
- Experience collaborating with hardware and firmware teams on hardware and firmware specifications.
- Ability to work in an agile environment.
- Ability to use AI DLC models with Cursor, Claude, Copilot, or similar tools.
- Experience using Docker in development or simulation environments.
- Experience with modern automated tools such as Codescene and GTest.
- Optical firmware domain knowledge.
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