Position: Job Title Software Developer Co-Op/Intern
Number of Position(s): 1
Duration: 4 months
Date: January 5th to April 25th, 2026
Location: Hybrid in Ottawa
EDUCATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Currently a candidate for a bachelor's degree in software engineering or electrical engineering at an accredited Canadian college or university.
Your responsibilities
- Work in the Solution Lab for the Nokia Data Center Interconnect products, deployed globally with top tier customers.
- Set up and configure DCI products for targeted customer scenarios and acquire knowledge about optical network configuration, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Onboard, validate and harden features as part of the New Product Introduction for major and minor software releases.
- Contribute to End-to-end solution automation in functional, robustness and interop testing.
- Motivated to learn new technologies and tools
Your skills and experience
- Good knowledge of layer-2 and layer-3 networking and protocols
- Experience working with standard Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, RHEL and exposure to embedded Linux environment.
- Programming experience with Python, Bash in Linux environment for automation, monitoring and troubleshooting
It would be nice if you also had:
- Comfortable using standard Linux tools for troubleshooting and configuration
- Previous experience working with optical networking products such as DWDM Transponders and Optical-Line-Systems
- Familiarity with system testing using mainstream test solutions such as Viavi and Spirent
- Exposure to standard NBI protocols such as RESTCONF, NETCONF, gRPC and telemetry
More information
The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. 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.
