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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 Layer0 network-element software feature areas.
- Drive software architecture, interfaces, data models, and control algorithms with architects and development leads.
- Guide development teams through implementation and validation and remain accountable from concept through release.
- Partner with product documentation teams to explain features and operational concepts to customers.
- 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.
- Mentor engineers and architects.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of DWDM line-system fundamentals, including amplifiers, ROADMs, power control, and OSNR.
- Extensive experience defining fault, performance, configuration-management, service-provisioning, and control-plane requirements for multilayer networking products, especially at L0 and L1.
- Experience with optical networking technologies and standards including ROADM/WSS, OTN, Ethernet, and SDN/GMPLS control planes.
- Experience designing and validating link-level control algorithms and optical performance monitoring for end-to-end transmission optimization.
- Working knowledge of optical-network operating and monitoring data models, including YANG, ONF TAPI, OpenROADM, and OpenConfig.
- Familiarity with the SONiC Optical Transport Network Working Group and Optical Transport Abstraction Interface (OTAI).
- Familiarity with AI tools including large language models and agents and their use in product specification and development.
- Broad systems expertise with a track record of writing and leading high-quality requirements and architecture specifications for reliable end-to-end systems.
- Sound independent judgment on ambiguous and novel technical problems and strong communication, presentation, collaboration, and cross-cultural teamwork skills.
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related field plus at least 5 years of relevant experience, or an M.Sc. in the same fields plus at least 8 years of relevant experience.
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About Infinera
Infinera builds optical networking systems and coherent optical engines, plus automation software and services, for telecom carriers, cloud and data center operators, cable/MSOs, and enterprises. The company designs and manufactures advanced optical semiconductors and pluggable modules for metro, long‑haul, and submarine transport networks. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Infinera is now part of Nokia after operating as a NASDAQ‑listed public company.