Senior Technical Specialist

Senior Technical Specialist

India

The Applied R&D Engineer 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.

Your responsibilities

• Apply expertise in IP-based networks and Layer 2/Layer 2+ Access protocols to validate software for the Lightspan family, ensuring it meets required standards.

• Expertise in tools needed for developing automated test cases

• Leverage customer feedback to continually refine and enhance product features, ensuring robustness in live deployments.

• Collaborate closely with R&D, product management, and customer support to ensure a seamless development process and timely feature delivery.

• Deepen expertise in a subset of L2 & L2+ Access protocols, including but not limited to Ethernet, Layer 2 Forwarding VLAN, QoS, Multicast, DHCP, PPPoE, 802.1x, Radius, CFM, ERPS, xSTP, LLDP, LACP, ANCP, etc., and stay updated with emerging network technologies.

• Mentor and guide junior team members, gaining leadership experience and overseeing projects with limited risks.

• Enhance troubleshooting skills by diagnosing and resolving complex hardware and software issues across customer environments.

• Continue to innovate and enhance the product’s software architecture and development processes, learning new tools and methods to improve efficiency

• Architecture and design experience. Abstraction Layer design and development

Your skills and experience

You have:

• Graduate or Postgraduate in the Engineering stream with 3+ years of Excellent programming skills in C/C++.Experience in Linux/RTOS Internals (VxWorks is preferred)

• Experience with Software Upgrades, Database Migration

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

• Development with Real-time OS, Embedded Linux

• Multi threaded environment development experience

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience in the development of Highly Available systems

• Data structures, Algorithms

• Good with Quality processes

• Mentor and motivate a team of highly skilled professionals

• 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.

More information

Some of our benefits:

• Flexible and hybrid working schemes
• A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave, with the option to return to work within a year following the birth or adoption of a child (based on eligibility)
• Life insurance to all employees to provide peace of mind and financial security
• Well-being programs to support your mental and physical health
• Opportunities to join and receive support from