Principal Software Engineer
Coherent Corp.3 months ago
Horsham, PA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and develop software features for existing and future optical networking products.
- Resolve bugs and sustaining issues in legacy products.
- Collaborate with validation, integration, optical, hardware, and test engineering teams to improve product performance and development efficiency.
- Maintain accurate firmware documentation and provide input to the documentation team.
- Coach junior software engineers and drive coding reviews and engineering practices across the team.
- Participate in pre- and post-sales customer interactions and provide guidance to Field Application Engineers.
- Develop embedded Linux multi-process and multi-threaded software using object-oriented design.
- Support cross-site development with global teams and occasional off-site meetings or travel.
Requirements
- University degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
- At least 8 years of experience in embedded software systems.
- At least 5 years of experience in the optical networking industry, including L0 and/or L1 equipment.
- Expertise in C and C++ programming for embedded systems.
- Experience with system product software functions such as north-bound interfaces, platform infrastructure, BSP, photonic control, alarms, performance monitoring, and service management.
- Knowledge of L2/L3 networking protocols including LLDP, OSPF, and BGP.
- Familiarity with Netconf, OpenConfig, YANG models, security protocols, virtualization, and container technologies.
- Experience with optical networking system-level features such as ROADM and ILA.
- Experience with Go and Python is required as listed among the programming languages.
- Experience with open-source projects such as SONiC, FRRouting, and Open vSwitch is preferred.
- Strong written and oral English communication skills, ability to work on an aggressive schedule, and willingness to collaborate with global teams.
- Knowledge of Chinese is an asset.
Benefits
- Onsite position in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
- Occasional off-site meetings or travel may be required.
- Occasional overtime and flexibility in work hours may be required.
- Employees must follow site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp. corporate EHS standards.
- The role may involve maintaining applicable ISO 9000, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 quality and environmental standards.
About Coherent Corp.
Coherent Corp. builds lasers, optics, and compound semiconductor components and systems for OEMs in the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Its portfolio spans laser machines, optical transceivers, and optoelectronic devices sold through direct sales and global channel partners. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the company adopted the Coherent name after acquiring Coherent, Inc. in 2022 and is publicly traded on Nasdaq (COHR).