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 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.
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. 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.
. Ability to lead Agile Teams and be able to conduct agile ceremonies to perfection.
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+ years of relevant experience and recognized as experts in the domain.
Must Have Skills:
- 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.
- 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, Optical Firmware will be an added plus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Opto-Electronics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline
- 8+ years of relevant software development experience
- Experience bringing up optical Layer 0 boards or cards, including ROADM, amplifier, RAMAN, OTDR, or Dynamic Gain Equalizer systems
- Experience with optical control loops and architectures involving ROADMs, amplifiers, RAMAN, Optical Channel Monitors, and VOAs
- Strong software design and analytical skills, including modeling, reuse, performance, testability, and extensibility
- Excellent C, C++, and Python skills, including object-oriented programming in multithreaded environments
- Experience collaborating with hardware and firmware teams on hardware and firmware specifications
- Agile working experience and ability to lead Agile teams and ceremonies
- Ability to use AI DLC models with Cursor, Copilot AI, or similar tools
- Experience using Docker in development or simulation environments
- Experience with automated development tools such as Codescene and GTest
- Domain knowledge of optical protection and restoration or optical firmware
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