Senior Principal Hardware Architect - Optical Transponders

Senior Principal Hardware Architect – DWDM Transponders / Muxponders

Location: Munich, Lisbon or Stockholm.

Closing date for applications - Wednesday 5th February 2025

Infinera develops leading DWDM transmission systems. Key components of the optical transport system are line interfaces – e.g. in transponder and muxponder units – providing mapping of client signals, signal supervision, traffic protection and similar functions with Tbit/s throughput.

The HW architect develops and maintains the product architecture and detailed product features and requirements based on market requirements and industry feature requests for those transponders. Compliance to industry standards – among others, ITU-T G.709, ITU-T G.798 – is a key requirement.

He/she coordinates and leads cross-functional concept and feature teams and provides technical & directional support to R&D, product management and customer teams.

Primary responsibilities are:

Develop innovative, competitive product architectures and concepts for packet-optical telecommunications products based on:

• Understanding of business requirements, use cases and operational concepts,
• Trade-off between cost, function, capacity and performance,
• Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends in telecommunications networks, data center interconnect and related topics including industry standards knowledge (e.g. ITU-T, IEEE, IETF),
• Hands-on experience in HW design for telecom products, including design for highest data rates (beyond 100Gbit/s),
• and a good technical understanding of optical network equipment, such as transport and switching network elements for OTN, DWDM and Ethernet transport; optical interfaces for DWDM systems; OTN and SDH protection technologies and synchronization in telecommunication networks.

Requirements:

• The candidate requires a BSc/MSc/PhD degree and a minimum of 5 years working experience in HW development of telecommunication systems.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant telecommunication standards, especially ITU-T G.709, Ethernet standards (IEEE 802.3), and related is required.
• Experience in HW design and HW architecture of DWDM line interfaces or related telecommunications products.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, multi-site and multi-national team environment.
• Self-directed and highly motivated.

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