Senior Software Engineer

Family Description

Applied R&D (AR) consists of target-oriented research either with the goal of solving a particular problem / answering a specific question or for multi-discipline design, development, and implementation of hardware, software, and systems including maintenance support. Supplies techno-economic consulting to clients. AR work is characterised by its detailed and complex nature in order to systematically combine existing knowledge and practices to further developing and incrementally improving products, operational processes, and customer-specific feature development.

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

DCN2025

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Candidates with Bachelors 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