Job Description

Position: Service Router Platform Test Dev Co-op Student
Duration: 4 months+
Start Date: May 1st, 2023
Location: Onsite

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

The team you'll be part of

Network Infrastructure

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia's Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

Education Recommendations

Currently a candidate for bachelor's degree or diploma in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with an accredited school in Canada.

What you will learn and contribute to

As part of our team, you will:

• Develop automated test cases to validate new hardware and software features in a Linux-based regression environment.
• Learn and use network protocols to configure high-capacity routers (examples: 7750 SR-12e/7950 XRS40/7750 SR-14s/7250 IXR-e/7250 IXR-R) to route Terabits per second of IP traffic.
• Perform testing on new (prototype) line cards, media adapters and platform features on the 7750 Service Router and 7250 Interconnect Router product families.
• Work closely with an intermediate or senior level engineer who will act as your mentor for the duration of the term.
• Monitor automated regression tests to ensure that new code does not break existing functionality.
• Verify driver-level software and packet data path.
• Build test networks, work with cutting-edge hardware (e.g. 400 Gigabit Ethernet) and use test equipment for traffic generation and protocol emulation.
• Work closely with testers and developers to investigate and resolve bugs.
• Test enhancements to functional areas such as PXC, mirroring, CPU performance, cflowd, control-plane redundancy, fabric redundancy, etc.
• Test IP traffic performance on a variety of router hardware components.
• Test traffic encryption and authentication at IP and/or MAC level.
• Qualify high precision time and phase synchronization technologies such as PTP, SyncE, and GNSS.
• Analyse the throughput limits of hardware components (running custom ASICs) on a nightly and weekly basis to ensure quality remains high.

What is Nokia looking for from me

You have:

• Solid programming skills (transferable to new languages).
• A curiosity to learn, reverse engineer, and tear apart a feature or a design (i.e., research and understand your feature area inside and out to test it thoroughly).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Quick learner, self-starter, able to work independently.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• A solid understanding of computer hardware architectural building blocks.
• Experience using source control software (Git).
• Experience coding large software projects outside of typical school projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Obsessive attention to detail.
• A strong passion for quality.

Why we're awesome

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.
Company Culture: We believe our people are our greatest asset and we aim to foster a fun, challenging, positive, and inclusive work environment. We offer 1-on-1 mentorship, learning and development opportunities, global impact and interaction, and flexible work/life balance.
Meaningful Co-op Term: During your co-op term, you will have the opportunity to test out the latest technologies and work on innovative projects that could leave a global impact. You get to use skills learned in the classroom and apply it to real work situations while gaining professional hands-on experience.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
• LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

See you this Summer 2023!

"My experience at Nokia has been amazing, one of the best learning experiences I ever had in my life. As Co-op student, it was an honor to be treated as any other full-time employee at Nokia. I got the freedom to design & implement my ideas. Working at Nokia as a Co-op student was the best thing that ever happened, it was a life changing opportunity." - Ummar Tantray, Former Nokia Co-op student, Fall 2020

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