6 days ago
Canada (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Shape product features and requirements with Product Line Management and recommend solutions based on feasibility, cost, and risk.
- Own system requirements, architecture specifications, and acceptance criteria for assigned Layer0 network element software features.
- Guide development teams through implementation and validation and drive software architecture, interfaces, data models, and control algorithms.
- Lead cross-functional feature teams, build consensus, and influence technical plans and priorities.
- Represent feature areas in technical engagements with key customers and assess field issues when requested by customer support.
- Partner with product documentation teams and mentor engineers and architects.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related field plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant optical transport or telecommunications experience, or an M.Sc. in the same fields plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Deep understanding of DWDM line systems, amplifiers, ROADMs, power control, and OSNR.
- Extensive experience defining fault, performance, configuration management, service provisioning, and control plane requirements for multi-layer networking products, especially at Layers 0 and 1.
- Experience with optical networking technologies and standards including ROADM/WSS, OTN, Ethernet, and SDN/GMPLS control plane.
- Experience designing and validating link-level control algorithms and optical performance monitoring.
- Working knowledge of YANG, ONF TAPI, OpenROADM, and OpenConfig data models.
- Familiarity with SONiC Optical Transport Network Working Group and OTAI.
- Familiarity with large language models and agents and their use in product specification and development.
- Broad systems expertise, strong independent judgment, excellent communication and presentation skills, and experience collaborating across functions, cultures, and international teams.
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About Nokia
Nokia builds telecom network equipment and software—covering mobile (4G/5G RAN and core), IP and optical networking, fixed access, and related services—for communications service providers, enterprises, and governments. The company also conducts advanced research through Nokia Bell Labs. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Nokia is a public company with global operations and long-standing relationships with major mobile network operators worldwide.