Nokia

United States

We are looking for SW engineers who wish to be a part of developing and evolving the current and next generation of routers that form the core of anything internet.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with one of the best engineering teams in the industry. We value your expertise and offer an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally. These routers are at the heart of Nokia’s IP product offerings, from carrying mobile traffic backhaul, to content distribution and data centers, to providing strong, resilient low latency and dependable IP core for communication and cloud service providers. We are not done yet – far from it. And we dream bigger.

There are more customers we want to win, more networks to penetrate, more technologies to enable and more applications to support. We want to make smaller products, and we want to make bigger products. We want to build products based on newer standards and newer ASICS in the market.

Your responsibilities

As a designer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing DataPath on custom or merchant silicon
• Writing code that is efficient yet modular, well unit tested and robust

Your skills and experience

Experiences in the areas of the following w.r.t packet forwarding:

• Ip, Mpls, segment routing, vxlans
• Gos (policers, schedulers)
• Acls and Tcam management
• Packet extractions to CPU
• Dpdk
• Experience in virtualized Linux Environments (kvm, dockers etc.)
• Experience in C/C++
• Proven aptitude for methodical problem solving, good communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work well in a close-knit team.
• BSCS, or similar is required. Work experience in related areas is a plus.
• Minimum 5-8 years in a professional capacity.

More information

Some of our benefits in US:

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program

The above benefits exclude students.

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Job Info

• Job Category Applied R&D
• Posting Date 05/27/2026
• Degree Level Bachelor’s degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Type Experienced
• Job Identification 36855
• Will NSA/CAPS approval be required? (E.g., accessing a US Customer Network?) No
• Role Type Individual contributor
• US/Canada Salary Range $131,191 -$200,000 USD
• Experience level Experienced
• Locations 520 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, 94085-3533, US
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