Standards Engineer OIF Electrical & Optical

Nokia Group; Nürnberg; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Nokia Group in Nuremberg is seeking a Standards Engineer OIF Electrical & Optical. The ideal candidate will develop and review standardization strategies that align with Nokia's product directions, particularly in Optical Transport Infrastructure and Ethernet.

The role demands significant telecom experience and a strong understanding of market requirements. A degree in engineering or a related field is required, along with excellent communication and project management skills to navigate dynamic environments.

Qualifikationen

• 5 years of telecom product experience in either network operator or equipment supplier.
• Demonstrated understanding of market requirements for Optical, Ethernet and/or IP/MPLS networking solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively across many teams.

Aufgaben

• Develop and review standardization strategies relevant to Optical Transport Infrastructure.
• Participate in meetings related to ITU-T Study Group and other relevant forums.
• Provide internal reports on standardization results to R&D and PLM.

Kenntnisse

Telecom product experience

Optical interface technology

Business acumen

Excellent communication skills

Project management skills

Ausbildung

Degree in engineering or related field

Jobbeschreibung

Standards Engineer OIF Electrical & Optical

Germany

Your responsibilities

• Work with Product Line Managers (PLMs) and R&D teams to identify standardization strategic objectives that support Nokia product strategies. Develop and regularly review standardization strategies relevant to Optical Transport Infrastructure, Ethernet, and Physical Layer topics consistent with Nokia product directions.
• Develop, internally review, and externally advocate for contributions developed to support the standardization strategies. Provide damage control regarding standardization initiatives of Nokia competitors that are incompatible with Nokia product directions.
• Participate in meetings of ITU-T Study Group 15, and as necessary, the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) PLL tracks, the IEEE 802.3 Working Group, and OpenROADM or other MSAs.
• Provide internal reports and briefings on standardization results, progress and directions to R&D and PLM.
• Build trusted relationships and be able to influence key executives.

Your skills and experience

• Degree in computer, electrical, software, or systems engineering, or physics, computer science, or relevant related field is required, graduate degree preferred.
• 5 years of telecom product experience in either network operator or equipment supplier.
• 5 years of product management experience, or consulting engineering/network architect experience with a demonstrated understanding of market requirements for Optical, Ethernet and/or IP/MPLS networking solutions.
• Business acumen.
• Proficient with optical interface technology, in particular high-order modulation, coherent detection, CWDM, DWDM and knowledgeable in current and emerging standards in these domains (OIF, ITU‑T, OpenROADM).
• Basic understanding of transport network technologies (OTN, high-speed Ethernet).
• Excellent understanding of the industry landscape, including customers, potential partners, direct competitors and competing and emerging technologies and architectures.
• Experience and demonstrated ability in identifying changing business models, and ability to associate these to changing solution/product and architecture requirement.
• Ability to work collaboratively across many teams within the organization including business development/technical sales, product management, marketing, R&D.
• Solid technical and operational understanding of service provider networking environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: ability to communicate technology strategy and architecture approach to engineers, executives, and customers.
• Ability and flexibility to develop and deliver presentations to a wide variety of audiences during standards meetings, conferences, trade shows.
• Strong consulting skills to work with both external and internal customers and suppliers, sometimes for understanding and sometimes for driving product and network architectures, features, constraints, and limits.
• Proficiency in conflict management and negotiation, with abilities to influence and lead others.
• Strong organizational and project management skills; autonomy and ability to manage competing demands.
• High energy; willingness to work in a fast‑paced and dynamic environment.
• Ability to work in both high‑level, strategic context and pragmatic execution of specific projects with practical constraints on network functional requirements and schedules and product or feature constraints.
• Ability to forge trusted relationships using an open and respectful communication and collaboration style.

Job Info

• Job Category Applied R&D
• Posting Date 06/15/2026
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Type Experienced
• Job Identification 31651Will NSA/CAPS approval be required? (E.g., accessing a US Customer Network?) No
• Locations Thurn-und-Taxis-Str. 10, Nuremberg, 90411, DE

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