The Applied R&D Engineer -Technical Specialist conducts target-oriented research to directly apply findings to the specification, design, further development, and incremental improvement of products, services, systems, tools, processes, etc. Integrates, verifies, tests, and modifies SW / HW / system components and capitalises on innovative solutions to meet particular requirements and specifications.

Must Have Skills:

• Experience in Linux/RTOS Internals (Vx Works is preferred),

• Experience with Software Upgrades, Database Migration

• Experience in Broadcom/Marvell SDK programming will be a major plus.

• Multi threaded environment development experience

• Experience with working in Large GPON/PON access networks (OLT/ONT) and/or Routers/Switches.

• Experience in development of Highly Available systems

• Experience in Netconf/Yang

• Experience in Layer 2 Switching, Layer 2 protocols (VLAN, xSTP, LACP, ERPS, DOT1x LLDP etc) and Layer 3 Forwarding / Routing (OSPFv2/v3, BGP, ISIS, PIM, IGMP) , MPLS/LDP/RSVP/L2VPN

• Excellent programming skills in C / C++

Nice to have skills:

• SW Architecture and design experience

• Abstraction Layer design and development

• Data structures, Algorithms

• Strong with Quality processes

• Mentor and motivate a team of highly skilled professionals

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• Independently works within broad guidelines and uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues.

• Works with substantial discretion and uses specialist knowledge, analytical skills, judgment and broad conceptual and practical experience to solve complex problems and to contribute to process improvements.

• Transfers concepts for professional direction of own organisational unit into actionable measures.

• Provides working leadership and training to less experienced personnel.

• May lead small projects with limited risks and resource requirements.

• 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.

• Plans technical requirements from customers’ needs.

• Develops SW / HW build-controlled productions releases (EG main and update releases, service packages, maintenance updates, and customer design engineering).

• Defines product hardware / software evolutions through the creation and release of hardware / software documentation, hardware / software change control management, supplier and customer notifications.

• 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.

• Applies the SW Care process (especially emergency case handling) contributing when needed to the fastest problem restoration.