Job Description

As a Staff SW Development Engineer at Nokia, you will work in a cross-functional, agile team developing embedded Optical Line System software products. Your work would involve extensive discussions with System Engineering, FW and SW development teams , Validation teams, including everything from product concept to finished product. The position would also involve taking full responsibility that a current feature is delivered on time with the right quality using state-of-the-art continuous integration pipelines..

Education Necessary:

Candidates must have a Bachelors/ Masters degree or higher in CS, Opto-Electronics, ECE or equivalent branch of engineering, and typically having 8-12 years of relevant experience and recognized as experts in the domain.

We offer:

- A high paced development of new products.
- Tight cooperation with other disciplines and an agile organization
- Short product development cycles, Real results of your work, you will see how it affects our products and sales.
- Social and wellness activities and clubs
- A friendly and helpful atmosphere
- Highly competent and motivated colleagues

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

Works effectively in a mixed environment and uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.

- Has in-depth business knowledge and uses understanding of how relevant areas integrate to achieve objectives.
- Uses advanced analytical skills to solve complex problems or problems that do not have routine solutions and takes a new perspective.
- Acts as a professional advisor and mentor for staff / workteam / taskforces.




- May lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements or small teams, and allocation of work.
- Analyses, designs, develops and tests products / services / improvements / bug resolutions for integrated hardware / software systems as per customers requirements.
- Resolves customer trouble tickets. Diagnoses complex problems / issues (EG hardware, software, combination) and provides resolution or recommend corrective actions.
- Retains technical and design knowledge for assigned products and technologies and provides training to the lower support teams (Tier 2 and Tier 3).
- Applies and maintains quality standards. Participates in process and tools evolutions and improvements.

Key Skills And Experience

Must Have:

- Experience 8+ years within SW development.
- E2E Optical (Layer 0) boards/cards like ROADM, AMPLIFIER, RAMAN, OTDR, Dynamic Gain Equalizer (DGE) bring up activity.
- Working experience in Optical Control Loops and architecture involving ROADM, Amplifiers, RAMAN, Optical Channel Monitor, VOAs
- Excellent design and analytical skills, including experience with software modeling, reuse, performance, testability, and extensibility.
- Excellent C/C++/Python and object-oriented programming skills in multi-threaded environments.




- Experience working with HW/FW teams and collaborating on the HW/FW specifications.
- Highly motivated, Flexible, Cutting-edge, self-driven and willing to take own initiatives for betterment of the product/features.
- Structured and thorough with analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Agile way of working.

Good to Have:

- Ability to use AI DLC models in conjunction with Cursor, Copilot AI etc
- Experience in using dockers in development/ simulation environment .
- Experience in using Modern Automated tools , viz . Codescene , GTEST.
- Domain Knowledge on Optical Protection and Restoration will be an added plus.

About The Team

Some of our benefits in India:

- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements to support work–life balance
- Health and well-being support – medical insurance for you and your family, health check-ups, life and accident insurance, well-being programs, and employee resource groups
- A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave based on eligibility
- Personal Support Service 24/7 – a confidential support channel open to all Nokia employees and their families in challenging situations
- Career growth & mobility – technical career paths, job rotations, international assignments, and relocation support
- Continuous learning – technical certifications, mentoring programs, coaching, and digital learning platforms
- Opportunities to innovate and contribute through Nokia's research and development environment
- Recognition programs that celebrate outstanding contributions
- Workplace support – ergonomic working support and mobile device programs based on eligibility

📌 Staff SW Develop Engr (Bengaluru)
🏢 NOKIA
📍 Bengaluru