• Job Description

  Req#: 6056

  The team you’ll be part of

  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.

  The Fixed Networks Division is one of the key divisions in Nokia focusing on making Ultra Broadband Access possible for all users in the world. The fixed access product portfolio consists out of Fiber and Copper Access technology. Our new developments focus on the evolution of Fiber access.

  Our system-on-chips are at the heart of our systems. It is where our competitive advantage starts. Within the system-on-chip team, there is a wide range of SW activities that are crucial to making the chip's features shine in the final product. As an embedded software engineer, you will work alongside the design and validation engineers, and leverage their expertise to meet the team's goals.

  You will contribute to the SDK (Software Development Kit) of the chip during the complete journey from concept to product; including low level drivers (interactions with the chip's register map), toolchain (compiler and other debugging tools), hardware models and other real-time software.
  

  Qualifications

  Your skills and experience

  • You hold a Master’s degree in (applied) engineering sciences: Electrical engineering or Computer Science
  • You have a broad interest in the telecom sector.
  • Agility in learning is key
  • Experience with C/C++, Python, SystemC, virtual platform development.
  • Experience with telecommunication protocols and/or physical layer technologies is a plus
  • Experience with SystemVerilog, TLM2 is a plus
  • Experience with compiler development and general compiler internals is a plus
  • Experience with hardware emulation is a plus
  • Good communication skills and a strong independent thinker

  Responsibilities

  Your responsibilities:

  • You will define a user-friendly interface towards application software and middleware, and implement a translation of the chip's register map into that API, including:
    • Handling the initialization and configuration of the chip
    • Handling the interrupt tree
    • Performing sanity checks and error logging
    • Implementing layers of protection and debug features
  • You will design and implement software models (from high-level to cycle-accurate -based on our need) that allow RTL validations and early testing. These models mimic the RTL behavior, from high level to cycle-accurate, based on the need for detail.
  • You will contribute to the development of our hardware-specific compiler tool in order to provide a translation between high-level packet-processing languages into chip configuration, including:
    • Syntax analysis of high-level packet-processing programming languages
    • Perform optimizations or circumvent limitations based on the capabilities of our chip
    • Define high-level architectural definitions of our chip that will be provided to application SW teams
  • You will provide support to application SW teams on how to use the hardware more efficiently. You will implement features with a close link to the hardware implementation
  • You will support/drive bring-up activities to demonstrate and derisk architectural, design and implementation choices in early development stages, including the development of automated test systems on prototypes and emulators.
  • You will provide support to application and middleware SW teams in their feature development and support the introduction of the product into the field.
  • You will contribute to the support and maintenance of the software products after the release

  In the context of those responsibilities, you will cooperate with system architects, hardware design engineers, application engineers, project managers…
  Concretely, you will be required to:

  • Work with the SoC designers and understand the functionalities of the chips.
  • Work with the hardware teams and understand capabilities and limitations of boards.
  • Work with the SW teams and understand how the chip will be used in the final product, as well as find the optimal boundaries between software – hardware domains.

  For the produced software, we will expect you to be an advocate of software quality, participate in code reviews, write code that is self-explanatory, maintainable and debuggable.

  We expect you to be continuously looking for improvements in all areas of your work and the team's work. And most of all, we expect you to become not just a cog in the wheel, but one of the engines that helps the wheel drive. In return, next to an attractive compensation package, you will be a part of a great team with strong opportunities for personal development and technical skill broadening.

• About the company

  Nokia’s transition to a primary focus on telecommunications began in the 1990s. The first GSM call was made in 1991 using Nokia equipment. Rapid success in the mobile phone sector allowed Nokia to become by 1998, the best-selling mobile phone brand in the world. In 2003 Nokia introduced the first camera phone. In 2011, to address increasing competition from iOS and Android operating systems, Nokia entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft. In 2014 Nokia sold its mobile and devices division to Microsoft. The creation of Nokia Networks, following the buy-out of joint-venture partner Siemens in 2013, laid the foundation for Nokia’s transformation into primarily a network hardware and software provider. The 2015 acquisition of Franco-American telecommunications equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent greatly broadened the scope of Nokia’s portfolio and customer base. Additional acquisitions have positioned Nokia to be an industry leader in the transition to 5G wireless technology by offering the only end-to-end 5G network portfolio available on a global basis. In 2016 the Nokia brand re-entered the mobile handset market through a licensing agreement with HMD Global, allowing them to offer phones under the Nokia brand.

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