Jobs at Nokia

Coordinates strategic initiatives, governance, customer engagements, industry events, leadership forums, and business reviews. Monitors market and competitive trends, translates insights into recommendations, tracks actions and milestones, reports KPIs, and develops executive communications. Aligns cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders across sales, marketing, delivery, finance, and leadership to ensure priorities and commitments are delivered effectively.

Leads strategic procurement for outsourced hardware development and manufacturing programs. Develops sourcing strategies, negotiates commercial agreements, manages ODM/JDM and contract manufacturing partners, supports NPI and product launches, drives cost reduction, and mitigates supply chain risks. Partners with engineering, product, quality, program management, and operations teams to optimize manufacturability, capacity, quality, delivery, technology, and supplier performance across the product lifecycle.

Leads quality assurance initiatives as a hands-on senior test automation engineer and functional manager. Develops test strategies covering end-to-end automation, scale, soak, regression, and chaos testing. Uses device simulators, hardware devices, and traffic generators to validate distributed-system resilience and stability. Collaborates across engineering teams, analyzes test results, mentors team members, and drives continuous improvement in testing processes and quality practices.

Develop and execute optical hardware and system-level validation tests. Improve Python-based test automation, workflow pipelines, data collection, and reporting. Interface with optical test instruments, investigate software and hardware failures, and perform root cause analysis. The role also involves applying AI-assisted coding tools and collaborating on optical integration and validation activities.

Manages the end-to-end procurement lifecycle for a category at Nokia, including category strategy, supplier selection and development, RFx processes, contract and price negotiations, supplier performance, risk mitigation, compliance, ESG initiatives, and KPI reporting. The role builds stakeholder and supplier relationships, drives savings, conducts business reviews, and ensures contractual and procurement obligations are met.

Develop and test firmware for next-generation optical network equipment using embedded CPUs within custom ASICs. Collaborate with Scrum teams on feature definition, coding, acceptance criteria, and unit testing. Apply knowledge of digital signal processing, control theory, optical networks, optical components, and embedded systems. Mentor interns and co-op students.

Leads enterprise-wide strategy execution, operating rhythms, performance management, and transformation initiatives. Partners with senior leaders across product, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, sales, HR, and corporate development to align priorities, improve organizational effectiveness, manage strategic programs, support growth and M&A activities, and provide data-driven executive decision support.

Design and develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed edge computing platforms using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Build scalable APIs, troubleshoot complex systems, conduct code reviews, optimize performance and security, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, contribute to planning, and maintain technical documentation.

Serves as a technical liaison among customer teams, regional technical assistance centers, R&D, and product management. Troubleshoots complex network product installation and performance issues, documents resolutions, supports testing and network architecture initiatives, leads customer upgrades, develops technical communications and workshops, and provides emergency support. The role also contributes product feedback to R&D, supports new releases, and travels up to 10% annually.

Leads the design and development of a highly distributed edge computing platform using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building scalable and fault-tolerant systems, designing APIs, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting complex distributed software issues, optimizing performance and security, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, planning projects, and maintaining technical documentation.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable platform software and services. Collaborate with architecture and cross-functional teams, implement platform features, participate in code reviews, document technical specifications, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and scalability. The role requires Go development, scripting, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, containerization, cloud networking, and CI/CD experience.

Leads the design, implementation, testing, and delivery of embedded firmware for pluggable optical modules. Develops C/C++ and Python firmware, defines requirements and system architecture, analyzes performance, collaborates with hardware, ASIC, and software teams, and supports Agile/Scrum delivery. Mentors junior engineers, improves development workflows and coding standards, and may serve as a Product Owner or technical lead.

Leads optical design verification testing for coherent linecards and pluggables. Develops test plans, characterizes optical performance, analyzes data, investigates technical issues, and ensures compliance with specifications. Builds Python-based test automation, explores AI integration, collaborates with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and design teams, and mentors junior engineers throughout the product development lifecycle.

Designs, implements, tests, and maintains firmware for Nokia optical engines used in long-haul, metro, and data center interconnects. Develops firmware requirements and design documentation, collaborates with hardware, FPGA, software, manufacturing, and test teams, resolves customer issues, supports manufacturing knowledge transfer, and contributes to testing, design reviews, architecture decisions, and process improvements.

Lead calibration architecture, optical integration, sustaining, troubleshooting, and manufacturing enablement for high-speed coherent optical linecards. Analyze calibration and test data, resolve production and field issues, develop lab-to-factory bring-up workflows, and collaborate with DSP, hardware, firmware, test, and manufacturing teams. Mentor optical engineers, communicate technical risks and trade-offs, and apply coherent optics expertise to current and next-generation platforms.

Lead new product introduction, product and solution demos, lab and field trials, customer homologation, and pilot deployments for telecommunications networking products. Apply advanced expertise in IP routing, MPLS, mobile packet core, signaling, network management, traffic analysis, and related protocols. Support pre-sales activities, customer engagements, complex technical problem-solving, and strategic process improvements while delivering projects on time and within budget.

Designs and optimizes IP network architectures and services for complex, multi-vendor customer projects. Responsibilities include developing implementation and migration plans, conducting performance analysis, field measurements, laboratory tests, network audits, configuration reviews, troubleshooting, and traffic-based optimization. The role supports Nokia network products and protocols, collaborates with technical teams, and provides recommendations to improve network reliability, availability, serviceability, and operational performance.

Develop and verify complex ASICs and FPGAs using SystemVerilog and UVM. Responsibilities include creating test strategies and plans, developing self-checking protocol and traffic tests, debugging designs, analyzing coverage, supporting hardware/software bring-up, and collaborating with system, hardware, software, and supplier teams. The role may lead verification tasks or teams and requires expertise in ASIC verification, functional and code coverage, assertions, formal verification, and scripting.

Manages electrical design delivery for optical modules, ASIC packaging, evaluation boards, and high-density PCB layouts. Leads signal and power integrity, thermal design, FEA initiatives, technical reviews, manufacturing transitions, and technology evaluations. Mentors engineering teams and collaborates cross-functionally to deliver innovative products meeting performance, quality, and timeline requirements.