Resident Engineer - Optical

Are you passionate about optical networks and eager to contribute to cutting-edge telecommunications projects? As a Nokia Optical Resident Engineer, you'll play a vital role in delivering exceptional network integration services to our North American customers. You'll work closely with our team to analyze network data, optimize performance, and ensure seamless network deployments and upgrades. Your expertise in network configuration, capacity planning, and troubleshooting will be invaluable as you collaborate with customers and field engineers to deliver high-quality solutions. If you're ready to make a real impact in the world of optical networks, we encourage you to apply!

Our Optical Resident Engineers provide on-site and remote Customer support with the turn-up and testing of Nokia's optical equipment in their network.

Work closely with customers and outside contractors to collect, analyze, review outside plant fiber optic characterization, network alarms and conditions and work toward optimization of the network.

• Review, modify and validate optical network designs.
• Create network commissioning files and network test procedures. Review these procedures with customers and Nokia field engineers.
• Turn-up and test the 1830 Optical equipment in the Customer's network and troubleshoot issues that arise.
• Create turnover packages to summarize final as-built network configurations and test results in order to obtain customer acceptance.
  

You have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science (Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred). Prefer 2+ years of network integration, technical support or systems test experience with optic networks.
• Technical knowledge/expertise in the following areas: - WDM, CWDM, Optical networking
• CLI and TL1 Command Sets.
• Ethernet, Switching and Routing Protocols.
• Test Gear (Familiarily with Fiberscopes, Fiber Cleaning, Power Meter, Optical Spectrum Analyzer, Optical Time Domain Reflectometer, Chromatic Dispersion, Polarization Mode Dispersion and Signal Transmission / Bit Error Rate testing).

It would be nice if you also had:

• Technical knowledge/expertise with the 1830 (1830PSS, 1830 EPT, 1830 NFM-T) or equivalent optical product lines from other vendors.
• Scripting, Python or other programming languages