Senior Optical Networking Solutions Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Nokia; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia is seeking an Optical Networking Technical Sales Engineer to join the Mission Critical Enterprise (MCE) team in support of utilities, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and education networks. You will lead pre-sales efforts, design DWDM transport architectures, and present solutions to technical and executive audiences.

You will leverage deep expertise in ROADM, coherent optics, and OTN to shape opportunities, respond to RFPs, and guide solution sizing while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related technical discipline.
• Experience in optical networking, DWDM, ROADM, coherent optics, and OTN preferred.
• Strong pre-sales, solution design, and RFP/writing experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account teams to shape and win optical networking opportunities.
• Lead technical discovery sessions and design DWDM transport solutions using Nokia 1830 portfolio.
• Deliver technical presentations and demos to engineers and executives.
• Drive end-to-end RFP/RFI responses and solution sizing proposals.
• Collaborate with product, R&D, and engineering to capture customer feedback.

Skills

DWDM transport

ROADM architectures

Coherent optics

OTN

Pre-sales

RFP responses

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Optical Engineering or related

Job description

Nokia is seeking an Optical Networking Technical Sales Engineer to join the Mission Critical Enterprise (MCE) team in support of utilities, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and education networks. You will lead pre-sales efforts, design DWDM transport architectures, and present solutions to technical and executive audiences.

You will leverage deep expertise in ROADM, coherent optics, and OTN to shape opportunities, respond to RFPs, and guide solution sizing while collaborating with