System Design Engineer jobs in Bangalore at Infinera

About Position

Infinera has a Network Planning position open within the Network Solutions Group (NSG). This person will play a key role in analyzing different carrier networking environments and in the development of optimized solutions, working closely with Marketing, Sales, Optical and Software Engineering departments.

Key Responsibilities
Support for RFP/RFQ Network Design responses and Optical Network Design Optimization
Serve as Subject Matter Expert and provide planning and support for the field in network planning, implementation, and deployment activities
Develop and research vendor and internal technical specifications to determine appropriate products, facilities and functionality
Utilize knowledge of network transition strategies to determine optimal architecture design for new products and platforms
Develop tools to enable sales engineers to design and optimize network responses
Development of back office systems to store and report on network designs
Analysis of network designs & economic impacts of different roadmap candidate features to build business cases
Economic analysis of various networking architectural approaches and models, along with analysis of the applicability of emerging networking technologies

Qualification And Experience
Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics is required, a PhD degree is preferred.
10+ years of relevant industry experience desirable, 3+ years of experience with 3rd party network design or optimization tools highly desirable.
Working knowledge of carrier-class networking architecture and systems, including following technologies: WDM, IP/MPLS/GMPLS/Ethernet.
Functional experience within either sales engineering or product management
Experience writing scripts in Excel, Matlab, Perl etc
Experience with commercial planning tools like OPNET, VPISystems, RSoft, Wandl, Cariden.
Recent PhDs with particularly relevant thesis are encouraged to apply

Skills
Technical Skills
Optical Link Budget Engineering
Modeling optical network performance including Non-Linear simulation and analysis
Capacity Planning optimization
Prior experience in Provisioning, Installation, Testing of other vendor DWDM systems is desirable
Familiarity with current standards and trends
Software experience with excellent scripting, Excel and SQL experience is a must
Familiarity of Relational Databases, Perl, C++, Java, Visual Basic, .net etc., is highly desirable
Soft Skills

Qualified candidates for this position must have ability to work independently and with remote teams, possess strong problem definition and problem solving skills, demonstrate good judgment in addition they must have strong analytical skills, excellent written and communication skills, attention to detail and be able to rapidly prioritize and provide rapid responses to internal and external customers.

Infinera

Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, , age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled.