Senior SW Engineer

Senior SW Engineer

Nokia's Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

Network Infrastructure, includes IP Routing, Optical Networks and Fixed Networks, as well as Alcatel Submarine Networks business, currently reported under "Group Common." This business group will respond to the ever-increasing demand for higher capacity, greater reliability, faster speeds and lower costs.

Your Responsibilities

The Network Infrastructure - IP Division group is looking for a Senior SW Engineer. This position will be in Westford, MA, USA.

• Responsible for developing open-source software SONiC NOS on the next-gen routing/switching products for application in Compute DC and AI fabric
• Develop platform and SW support for new Nokia switching portfolio based on Broadcom and Marvell chipset
• Be a part of the team that will work closely with key customer and productize Nokia platforms in customer networks
• Work closely with Test team peers to ensure quality of Nokia product
• Work closely with Product Line Manage to make sure all customer requirements are met
• Background in software design, implementation and debugging.
• Strong communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills are essential.

Your Skills and Experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Candidates with Bachelor’s in CS, EE, will be more relevant. Master's degree a plus.

• Person should have hands on experience with Software development on Linux
• Person should have strong foundation on Operating Systems concepts
• Excellent programming skills in C++ and Python is MUST
• Person should have experience designing and developing network protocols, analyzing, and improving existing protocol specifications.
• Excellent knowledge of BGP and IGP protocols is MUST
• Knowledge of SRv6 and EVPN/VxLAN
• Person should have experience with virtualization technologies Dockers/Containers, Namespaces, etc.
• Knowledge and experience of complex software design for distributed systems in embedded networking/telecommunications projects.
• Experience in designing and developing network management interfaces like gNOI, etc.
• Strong knowledge of operating system architecture such as memory management, IPC, scheduling, task switching, concurrent memory access, event driven programming

Desired Qualifications: (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge)

• IP network fundamentals, including network architecture, routing protocols
• Advanced operating system fundamentals, including kernel operations, scheduling, memory management, semaphores
• Data structure and algorithm fundamentals, including use cases, order of complexity, performance analysis
• Strong programming skills including C, C++, Python

More Information

Some of our benefits in US:

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program

The above benefits exclude students. Disclaimer for US/Canada Nokia Maintains broad annual base salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, and with consideration to internal peer equity. Check the salary ranges in the job info section for this role. All North America job posts will post for a minimum of 7 calendar days and up to 180 days or until candidate/s identified.

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Job Info

• Job Category Applied R&D
• Degree Level Bachelor's degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Type Experienced
• Job Identification 35965
• Role Type Individual contributor
• Salary Range $125,269 -$178,956 USD * Plus, potential incentive/variable compensation for eligible roles.
• Experience level Experienced
• Locations 1 Robbins Road, Westford, Massachusetts, 01886-4113, US